In the local bodies, the town planning section issues permission for construction of buildings, based on specific set of rules and regulations. The building permission module facilitates quick processing, disposal of building plan permissions, standardization of collection of building fee & other charges, to automate the technical scrutiny, effective monitoring of file processing and have transparency, accountability and accessibility to the information and status of the building applications, retrieval of data at any future date

The main features of the building permissions module are :

• Approval of building proposals of various types and nature of buildings
• Approval of layout proposal
• Processing and disposal of Government references, court cases, Chief Minister cell reference, Lok Ayukta references etc.
• Planning and implementation of developmental activity such as road widening,junction improvements, development of parks, play grounds, subways, parking lots, bus bays etc
• Calculation of various fees such as admission fee, developmental charges,regularization charges, building license fees, scrutiny fees, demolition chargesetc
• Collection of the fees and maintenance of appropriate records