The Government of Telangana has enacted TS-bPASS Act 2020 for getting hassle-free building permissions through on-line and to facilitate Building approval process to Citizens in an objective and time-bound manner.
It has come to the notice of the Government that, there is an extreme delay by some of the officers in processing of applications in the Municipalities / Municipal Corporations..
Accordingly to maintain the spirit of TS-bPASS Act 2020, the Government is verifying the pendency of TS-bPASS applications from time to time and observed that there is an extreme delay by the 13 officials and vide Lr.No.2461/Plg.III/2021 Dt.23.05.2023 instructed the District Collector’s concerned to impose penalty of Rs.1000/- to Rs.3000/- on each official i.e, (2) Municipal Commissioners and (11) scrutiny officers who have delayed the process of TS- bPASS applications within the time frame.
The Government is reviewing the performance of different officials regularly and imposing penalties on erring officials. So far penalties have been levied ten times since the commencement of TS-bPASS in the year 2020 and a total of 103 officials have been imposed with penalties.
The Government also advised the District Collectors to review the approval process under TS-bPASS more frequently so that delays do not occur in the future.
