AI-based building permits to be installed in municipal corporations at Chattisgarh

The Chhattisgarh government has launched an AI-based direct building permit system to construct buildings on residential plots of up to 500 sq meters (5382 sq ft) in urban areas. Under this system, building permits will be issued without human intervention. 

Launching the portal on Monday, Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel issued the first building permit from the system to the applicant Chetan Dev Sahu, resident of Daldal Seoni, Raipur. The AI-based direct building permit system will be installed in every municipal corporation of the state, said the chief minister.

The CM said, “The newly-introduced building permit system will expedite the infrastructure development in cities of the state and save time and energy of the applicants. This system would offer an effective solution to the existing problems in the permit issuance process. Earlier, this process was complicated, time-taking and not easily accessible, requiring map approval from several officials. But now this entire process will be free from human intervention and will be completed in a shorter duration.”

The portal was developed in 15 days following the instruction of the Chief Minister. If the applicant submits all the required documents with the application fee of Re 1, the building permit will be issued within seconds. 

Alarmelmangai D, Secretary, Urban Development Department, said, “In this newly implemented online building permit system, separate dashboards have been made for the public representatives, commissioners and engineers, on which the applications received daily are displayed along with the information about approval, permissions and pending cases.” The commissioners, construction officers, building inspectors and other officers of all the municipal corporations have been trained to use the new direct building permit system through a state-level workshop.