India, May 30 -- The civic authorities have begun to use artificial intelligence (AI) to scrutinise proposals for the construction of new buildings, aiming to reduce the time taken to process each proposal from about a month to just five days.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced the soft launch of its software on Friday. Developed by CivitTwin, the software program will check various compliances in proposals submitted for approval by developers.

The process of granting building permissions, both complex and tedious, has so far been handled manually. Each project requires nearly 25 NOCs, with 60-odd documents along with 450 manual inputs, and could be eligible for more than ten kinds of concessions.

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