Government now has relaxed environmental clearance process for upcoming real estate evolution in the course of ‘Housing for all within 2022’ project. The changes are likely to dash off through gazette. The central government has to make the clearance portion easier to fast-track the deliverance time of residential projects. Under this rule small projects will have to produce ‘self-declaration’ documents to meet environmental conditions. Whereas the bigger projects need to seek prior green approvals before the construction puts on the board. Therefore along with every other required legal documents before registration builders are bound to show environmental approvals if they are asked for the same.
These changes came in front in the past week with the gazettes as bye-laws in the environment impact assessment to stroke up the approval process for realty development. “Since the states are now required to bring changes in the respective building bye-laws so that it won’t be in conflict with the central notification, the implementation of the new rules will take nearly six to seven months,” said Manoj Kumar Singh, joint secretary in the environment ministry. This inclusion has been made following the footsteps of countries like Japan and Singapore. Speaking about the entire process Sing also informed, “Idea is to make more buildings follow environmental norms. It integrates standard environmental conditions with the building permission to cut delays.”
The following gazettes confirmed that residential projects sized 5000 sq mtr up to less than 20,000 sq mtr comes within range of fulfilling ‘environmental conditions’ through self-declaration and certification process. According to the law the local authorizes have the final say regarding conformity of the green laws. If you want to buy flats in Kolkata you should have a clear idea of whether the builder is well aware of this major submission. This category of project was under supplanting group. “The local authority may issue the building permission incorporating environmental norms in it and allow the project to start based on self- declaration and certification,” it said. Projects that are sized of 20,000sq mtrs to less than 1,50,000sq mtrs will be absolved from the existing modus operandi of ‘prior environmental clearance’ from the State-level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), due its time-depleting infrastructure. Now construction companies don’ need to go to SEIAA. This category of buildings now will get real-time ‘building permission’ and ‘environmental clearance’ from local civic bodies which will be having an ‘environmental cell’ for checking the environmental parameters.
Now this cell will process online applications and come forth with it in a meeting of committee of development authorities and Municipal Corporation. The committee will audit and settle the environmental clearance will be issues to be incorporated format by the local authority. This entire move is aimed at ‘ensuring ease of doing responsible business’ and integrating the permission for construction. The key factor of the notification is to bring low budget flats within 2022 for the lower income socio-economical group in urban areas. Under the notification, only building projects of the size of 1.5 lakh sq metres to less than 3 lakh sq metres will have to go to the SEIAA for prior green clearance while the projects having more than 3 lakh sq metres will go to the environment ministry’s central assessment authority.
By LNN (Liyans News Network)