Huda plans ombudsmen to speed up housing projects
Business Standard, June 2, 2009, Page 10
Charanjit Ahuja, Chandigarh
While everyone is anticipating sops for affordable housing in the next Budget of the UPA government, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has initiated a number of steps to cut on delays in the approval of residential building plans. The new guidelines would come in force from June 1, 2009.
There is also a proposal to appoint an ombudsman in each urban estate to oversee the proposed system of award and penalty and to settle any dispute.
The zonal administrators have been asked to suggest a panel of two from each urban estate who are persons of repute and high integrity and are willing to voluntary work for this cause without any monetary remuneration. The zonal administrators were also directed to hold a training session at the zonal level for all the officers and officials involved in the process so as to implement the new guidelines from June 1.
Under the new guidelines, the time schedule has been fixed for taking an appropriate decision either for approval or rejection of building plans. The time schedule for hyper and high potential zones like urban estates of Gurgaon I and II, Faridabad, Sonipat, Panipat and Panchkula has been fixed as 21 working days; for medium potential like urban estates of Bahadurgarh, Hisar, Rewari and Dharuhera, 15 working days and for low potential areas including all remaining urban estates in the state 10 working days.
Officials at the estate office and XEN office who are to process and handle the building plans have been made designated officials. They would also require processing the building plans in a time bound manner. A maximum period of three days has been given to them to process the building plans in the hyper and high potential zones and a maximum of two days to each designated officer for medium potential and low potential areas.
An innovative system of reward and penalty is being worked out. Rewards would be given to the Huda officials for deciding building plans in the prescribed time limit and penalty would be paid to allottees wherever the time schedule is breached by Huda.
Henceforth, the building plan approval committee would consist of the estate officer as chairman and concerned executive engineer as its sole technical member. In those urban estates where no executive engineer is posted, the formalities would be completed by the sub-divisional engineer of the concerned urban estate.
The technical scrutiny of the building plans of residential plots would be carried out in-house. A comprehensive format has been devised that would cover all the provisions of the Huda (erection of buildings) regulations as well as the zoning plan approved for a particular area.
To cut the delay in sanctioning of the building plan, the number of signatories had been reduced in the formats.
Business Standard, June 2, 2009, Page 10
Charanjit Ahuja, Chandigarh
While everyone is anticipating sops for affordable housing in the next Budget of the UPA government, the Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) has initiated a number of steps to cut on delays in the approval of residential building plans. The new guidelines would come in force from June 1, 2009.
There is also a proposal to appoint an ombudsman in each urban estate to oversee the proposed system of award and penalty and to settle any dispute.
The zonal administrators have been asked to suggest a panel of two from each urban estate who are persons of repute and high integrity and are willing to voluntary work for this cause without any monetary remuneration. The zonal administrators were also directed to hold a training session at the zonal level for all the officers and officials involved in the process so as to implement the new guidelines from June 1.
Under the new guidelines, the time schedule has been fixed for taking an appropriate decision either for approval or rejection of building plans. The time schedule for hyper and high potential zones like urban estates of Gurgaon I and II, Faridabad, Sonipat, Panipat and Panchkula has been fixed as 21 working days; for medium potential like urban estates of Bahadurgarh, Hisar, Rewari and Dharuhera, 15 working days and for low potential areas including all remaining urban estates in the state 10 working days.
Officials at the estate office and XEN office who are to process and handle the building plans have been made designated officials. They would also require processing the building plans in a time bound manner. A maximum period of three days has been given to them to process the building plans in the hyper and high potential zones and a maximum of two days to each designated officer for medium potential and low potential areas.
An innovative system of reward and penalty is being worked out. Rewards would be given to the Huda officials for deciding building plans in the prescribed time limit and penalty would be paid to allottees wherever the time schedule is breached by Huda.
Henceforth, the building plan approval committee would consist of the estate officer as chairman and concerned executive engineer as its sole technical member. In those urban estates where no executive engineer is posted, the formalities would be completed by the sub-divisional engineer of the concerned urban estate.
The technical scrutiny of the building plans of residential plots would be carried out in-house. A comprehensive format has been devised that would cover all the provisions of the Huda (erection of buildings) regulations as well as the zoning plan approved for a particular area.
To cut the delay in sanctioning of the building plan, the number of signatories had been reduced in the formats.
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