48 hours deadline for CMDA to upload site inspection report

Chennai:

Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority will now have to upload the site inspection report of industry or business projects online within 48 hours from the time it was inspected.

CMDA Member secretary has asked the Area Plans Unit to make necessary provision in the website to display the inspection report.

“This can be downloaded by the establishment firm and has to be made available in the next two years,” CMDA member secretary C Vijayraj Kumar said in a office order.

This comes as Industries Department has come out with reforms action plan for Ease of doing Business pertaining to single window clearance of industrial applications.

It is learnt that the Guidance Bureau is coordinating and implementing the system after it was suggested by Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion.

This comes as the state has drafted a bill  under which all the applications will be channelled through a single window portal, which will be integrated with the departments that have to give clearance to investment projects.

The act will also set up Investment Promotion and Monitoring Board which will be meeting four times in a year to review the disposal of applications submitted through the single window portal.