As per the latest reports, Municipal Administration & Urban Development (MA&UD) Special Chief Secretary and Metropolitan Commissioner Arvind Kumar fined four Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) officials Rs.10,000 each for negligence in performing duties.
The fine was imposed on three assistant planning officers and a Tahsildar after the Metropolitan Commissioner discovered that the officials failed to clear files within the timeframe specified under the (TS-bPASS) Telangana State Building Permission Approval and Self-Certification System.
The files had been pending for approximately 16 to 27 days. The fine was imposed following a thorough investigation. Another reason for imposing a penalty is to ensure that such instances do not occur again in the future, the HMDA said in a statement.
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The State government had implemented the TS-bPASS, a single integrated platform for processing various permissions needed for land development and construction of buildings via a self-certification system. One of the primary goals of TS-bPASS is to provide services within a certain time frame. Telangana is the first state in the country to offer such comprehensive online services with no touchpoint.
A couple of weeks ago, the municipal administration department fined each of the five municipal officers in Narsapur, Kamareddy, Ibrahimpatnam, Makthal municipalities, and Khammam municipal corporation Rs 5,000.
OGH premises to undergo a makeover
In other news, the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has decided to invest Rs 62.89 lakh on beautification work at the Osmania General Hospital (OGH) to give the iconic hospital a facelift.
The OGH, which is classified as an II-B heritage building in the HMDA listing and is protected by the HMDA’s heritage regulations, is now getting the makeover. Though the state proposed in 2015 to demolish the OGH building and replace it with a new modern hospital, heritage activists opposed the proposal, arguing that the government should retain the main building as it is part of Hyderabad’s heritage.
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