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Module 03 · Approvals

Every statutory application, and whose desk it is on.

Approvals tracks every statutory application a development needs — RERA, the planning authority, the corporation — through a status lifecycle that only moves via a recorded transition. Each one carries its checklist, its documents, its expiry and the name of the person it is currently sitting with.

The lifecycle

Status moves one way, and only through a transition.

No screen sets a status column. Every movement goes through a service that checks the move is legal, records who made it and writes it to the timeline. That is what makes the board trustworthy six months later.

What a lapse actually costs

An expired approval is not a paperwork problem. It stops sales, stops construction, or both — and it is usually noticed in the month it matters.

RERA · Project registrationHolder · R. Kumar
Draft
Raised, checklist attached
Submitted
Filed, reference recorded
Under query
Authority asked for something
Approved
Certificate stored, expiry set
Every move is a recorded transition — who, when, from which state.
The catalogue

Your approval types, not ours.

Which approvals a development needs differs by authority, by city and by project type. The catalogue is data your team edits — not a schema change and not a support ticket.

RERA

Project registration, quarterly updates, extension and amendment filings

Planning authority

Planning permission, layout approval, revised plan sanction

Corporation / panchayat

Building licence, water and sewerage connection, completion certificate

Utilities and others

Electricity sanction, fire NOC, environmental clearance where applicable

Illustrative. Your catalogue is configured to the authorities and application types your projects actually go through.

On each approval

Enough to answer “where is it?” without a phone call.

A checklist that belongs to the type
Each approval type carries the documents it needs. Raising one creates the checklist, and a line is done the moment its document is in.
Documents attached where they are used
The filed application, the query letter, the sanctioned plan and the certificate sit on the approval, not in a shared drive named after last year.
Whose desk it is on
An approval has a holder. When the liaison person is out, the board still knows where every file is.
Handed to a vendor, in one link
Assign a whole approval to your liaison agent or consultant. They get one link to the complete checklist and upload the papers straight into it; the board shows the file as with the vendor while they work.
Signed off before it is filed
A stage can require sign-off from named roles, in order. Nothing goes to the authority until the review chain has approved the papers, and an objection comes back with a written reason.
Expiry, recorded and visible
Validity dates are captured on approval, so a certificate about to lapse appears on the board before it becomes a problem rather than after.
A timeline that survives the person
Every transition, tick, upload and edit is recorded against the approval. The history does not depend on who is still with the firm.
Watch it

Approvals, walked through.

From the board and the checklist to handing a file to a vendor, sign-off, the authority’s decision and the renewal warning.

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Next step

See it against your own project.

A walkthrough runs on your data — one real approval, one live tower, last week’s enquiries. Forty minutes, no slides.