“The CMC usually takes a month to approve a building plan. The onus of designing the building according to the building rules and then ensuring that the construction is not deviating from the plan lies on licensed building surveyors,” Hakim said. An official in the CMC said the buildings whose plans an empanelled building surveyor or architect can approve could not be taller than 10 metres, which is usually the height of a two-storey building. A senior civic official said the rule announced on Monday was part of a series of measures the CMC is taking to make Calcutta more business friendly. The CMC approves about 2,500 building plans in a year but there are no figures on how many of those are two-storey buildings.

Source: The Telegraph December 31, 2019 02:48 UTC