Telangana is a fast-urbanising State and hence, the Government of Telangana, recognising the need for developing urban areas in a planned manner, has been spending close to ₹3,000 crore through the Telangana Urban Finance Infrastructure Corporation (TUFIDC) to improve municipal infrastructure.
In Monday’s budget presented by Finance Minister T. Harish Rao, a sum of ₹1,394 crore has been proposed under the ‘Pattana Pragathi’ programme. All the municipalities are being provided financial assistance every month under this to provide safe drinking water, Urban Mission Bhagiratha programme and to enhance the green cover, all the municipalities and corporations have to spend 10% of their budget towards green initiatives.
It was pointed out that a new Municipal Act was brought in and after the introduction of TS- bPASS, getting building permissions has become easy. If the area is upto 75 square yards, no building permission is required. For areas which are up to 500 square metres, one can get building permissions online with self-certification through a single window.
