Srinagar, July 30: The Jammu and Kashmir Government has notified a uniform building permission fee structure for all Urban Local Bodies and Development Authorities across the Union Territory with immediate effect, aiming to bring greater uniformity, transparency and predictability in the building permission process.
The order, issued by the Housing and Urban Development Department under the Jammu and Kashmir Unified Building Bye-Laws, 2021, supersedes all previous notifications and instructions issued by Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Municipal Committees and Development Authorities prescribing different building permission fees.
Under the new fee schedule, residential buildings, including housing colonies, will attract a building permission fee of ₹80 per square metre, while commercial, public, semi-public, industrial and other special category buildings will be charged ₹270 per square metre. The fee for mixed-use buildings has been fixed at ₹130 per square metre.
The government as per the news agency Kashmir News Trust has also prescribed a lump-sum malba security of ₹3,000 for residential buildings and ₹10,000 for all other categories. In addition, a compounding fee equivalent to 40 per cent of the applicable building permission fee for the respective land use will be levied wherever applicable. Religious buildings have been exempted from payment of the building permission fee.
The order further directs that the uniform fee structure be integrated into the Online Building Permission System (OBPS)/Auto-DCR platform and made applicable uniformly across the Union Territory. It also bars any Urban Local Body or Development Authority from revising or altering the notified fee without prior approval of the Housing and Urban Development Department.
The Government has directed all Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Municipal Committees and Development Authorities to implement the new fee structure and ensure strict compliance within their respective jurisdictions. [KNT]
