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" MUMBAI: In what could benefit lakhs of Mumbaiites, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is soon going to allow residents to make changes to their homes without taking a BMC clearance.  BMC Commissioner Ajoy Mehta said that the BMC would empower citizens to make the changes to their homes unless it did not impact the structural stability of the building. “ Home owners would not need any civic permission to make changes to their homes as they used to earlier. They just have to inform the BMC about the changes that they intend to do and can make the changes without taking our permission.”said Mehta on Wednesday. Mehta was speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the Ease of doing Business organised by the state government to show case Maharashtra’s efforts in easing up rules Industrialists and the World Bank.  \tHowever Mehta stated that shifting of toilets or kitchens would not be allowed by the BMC. “We would also not allow the load bearing wall of the building to be touched.”said Mehta.  The Mumbai Municipal Commissioner explained how his administration had not just simplified the ease of applying for building permissions but also had created a transparent system where by any person who tries to influence to deny or facilitate a building permission will be notified to the public. “Hence forth all the building plans will be in public domain and also those who try to obstruct or facilitate (through civic officials) the development of a building will also be put up on the public domain.”said Mehta.  \tWhat it means is that politicians like corporators, MLA’s, MPs’ who try to obstruct who facilitate a building’s development will now have their names listed by the BMC on the public domain.  \tMehta said that even a phone call to the civic body by ‘anyone not connected’ to the developer will have his name put up.  \tThe BMC Commissioner also said that the BMC is coming up with a new system to ensure that road digging by different utilities is done simultaneously to ensure less hardships for citizens.  \t“What happens is that many agencies (MTNL, MSEB, Tata’s, BEST) come up for permission to dig up roads for laying their services, at different times in a year. We are now coming up with a plan where in all these agencies would be given a deadline to submit their plan for digging up roads.”said Mehta. He added, “Once the plans are submitted,the permissions would be given in such a way that the permissions would coincide so this would mean roads won’t have to be dug up again and again.’said the BMC Commissioner. He also added that the BMC would levy a ‘premium’ for those utilities who would come up after the deadline given by the BMC to apply for permissions. "
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