BUILDING PLAN APPROVAL SYSTEM IN URBAN AREAS: A STUDY OF PUBLIC PERCEPTION

Abstract

Developing countries including India continue to witness swift urban expansion and augmentation of
construction activities. The rapid intensification of construction activities necessitates the local bodies to impose
more legal controls to assure systematic development. Building plan approval is a statutory permission from the
concerned authorities to make sure the development is followed by building rules and standards. Every building
is expected to submit an application in required format and obtain approval before the commencement of
construction. Urban local bodies are authorized to issue building plan approvals in urban areas and these bodies
are trying to improve their performance by using modern technology such as ICT. The contemporary study has
been taken up to appraise the public perception on the building plan approval system of the Greater
Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation in India.