CHENNAI: The Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority has fared poorly in the implementation of 17 action plans of the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) under the Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) and this could affect the state’s ranking this year in implementation of business reforms.
The state was ranked 15th in last year’s ranking under the Business Reform Action Plan, which is prepared by the DIPP in partnership with the World Bank. The BRAP includes 372 recommendations for reforms on regulatory processes, policies, practices and procedures spread across 12 reform areas.
This year, the CMDA is part of 17 action plans under the DIPP’s draft business reforms action plan. Among those, the CMDA, along with the Revenue department and the Directorate of Town and Country Planning managed to get five points under the action plan of land administration and transfer of land and property.
The focus under the area was change in land use for conversion to industrial use for land outside industrial parks or industrial development corporations.
The CMDA has been directed to furnish information and implement an online application system by following details like publishing list of documents required in its website, the clear timeline mandated through the Public Service Delivery Guarantee Act and allowing online application submission and payment thereof, besides tracking monitoring of application.
However, under other action plans, it just managed a single point. Some of the major reforms where it failed include developing master plans or land use plans with legal sanction for all urban areas and making them available online, the construction permit procedure and information wherein it has to publish information about the procedure including pre-construction and post-construction documents.
These also include no objection certificates, registrations and other mandatory approvals on the website for rural areas.
It also hit out over the lack of a well defined inspection procedure and checklist on the department’s website when it comes to building plan approval process.
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The CMDA is part of 17 action plans under the DIPP’s draft business reforms action plan
While it has managed to get 5 points for land administration, it has failed to deliver in
many key areas