more-inDecentralisation of the building layout approval system and an increase in floor area ratio and coverage ratio are being considered as part of the government’s efforts to create a investor-friendly milieu in the State. Significant amendments have been mooted to the Panchayati Raj and Municipality Acts and also the building rules to ease the procedural wrangles that inordinately delay the approvals for major projects. An end-to-end computerised building layout approval system would be the pivot of the reforms being taken up for expediting the licensing system. Local bodies would thus be stripped of their overwhelming authority to take action against industrial units in their ambit, sources said. It has been proposed to considerably ease the procedures in local bodies for setting up a new venture.

Source: The Hindu April 08, 2017 14:03 UTC