AutoDCR Application Case Study – Pune Municipal Corporation

Organization

Building Plan dept., Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)

Industry

Government

Client Information

Pune, the Oxford of the East is a historical city in India with a glorious past, an innovative present, and a promising future. Since 1950, the Pune Municipal Corporation is administrating the city and serving citizens. Pune Municipal Corporation has taken an initiative for implementing e-Governance. The success of e-governance depends on the use of Information Technology in the mobilization of Government resources and utilization of these scarce resources intending to provide a better service.

Few more statistics about PMC

Modules Implemented

CAD Scrutiny Engine & Workflow Management

Objective

PMC decided to bring a changed management process that builds awareness, understanding, trust, common purpose, and a genuine willingness to change by constantly reinventing itself by delivering its obligations to the citizens with greater accountability and a responsive sensitivity. The proposal file movement flow needed to be designed to reduce the time required for approval and easy tracking of the proposal.

Project Description

AutoDCR Solution has been implemented for the building plan department to have a smooth proposal submission, scrutiny of the drawings, incorporate all the necessary information, track the proposal, and final approval of the proposal.

Issue and Challenges

There were several issues and challenges that PMC sought to overcome and decided to go for a Building Plan Approval System for the building plan department.

• Complex nature of land records and many rules interrelated to each other 
• Authorities engaged were interpreting the rules as understood them, thus allowing a lot of subjectivity in the interpretation 
• The time-consuming process as it involved multiple hands offs
• Revenue target achievement for ULBs remained elusive due to procedural delays 
• Malpractices were unavoidable due to a lack of standardization
• No standard process for determining the efficiency of the staff

Solution

The automatic scrutiny system named “AutoDCR” is the first of its kind being brought into use by Pune Municipal Corporation in entire India. SoftTech implemented AutoDCR which reads the drawings submitted by Architects in CAD format and maps them to development control rules to find variances if any. The system has an in-built workflow and document scrutiny system for controlling the time for approval and sending alerts.