13 municipal commissioners penalised for delay in building permissions

HYDERABAD: Telangana Government has imposed penalties on commissioners of two municipal corporations and 11 municipalities for delay in according approval to building permission requests.

The Government has enacted TS-bPASS Act 2020 for getting hassle-free building permissions through on-line and to facilitate building approval process to citizens in an objective and time-bound manner.

It has come to the knowledge of the Government that there is an extreme delay by some of the officers in processing of applications in municipalities / municipal corporations.

Accordingly, to maintain the spirit of TS-bPASS Act 2020, the Government is verifying the pendency of TS-bPASS applications from time to time and observed that there is an extreme delay by 13 officials and instructed the district collectors concerned to impose penalty of Rs.1000 to Rs.3000 on each official i.e, two municipal commissioners and 11 scrutiny officers who have delayed the process of TS-bPASS applications within time frame.

The Government is reviewing the performance of different officials regularly and imposing penalties on erring officials. So far penalties have been levied 10 times since commencement of TS-bPASS in 2020 and a total of 103 officials have been imposed with penalties.

The Government also advised the District Collectors to review the approval process under TS-bPASS more frequently so that delays are not occurred in future.