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ICT Suite for Seamless Business Facilitation.
Inspection Management System
Inspections of industries serve various purposes, such as registration, licensing, renewal, and certification of factories and boilers. They aim to enhance working conditions, ensure safety, and protect the well-being of industrial workers. With growing environmental concerns, industries are also facing increased scrutiny from pollution control authorities. Government inspectors typically cover multiple sectors including construction, environmental protection, fire safety, and public works. Any non-compliance discovered during inspections can have severe consequences for industries, potentially leading to shutdowns and revocation of operating licenses.
Given the involvement of multiple departments issuing various clearances and the absence of inter-departmental communication, there is a significant risk of overlapping inspection schedules. Without prior notification to both the inspecting departments and industries, readiness can be compromised on both sides. The industry frequently raises concerns about ambiguity, duplication of efforts, and overlapping responsibilities among inspection authorities, often stemming from a lack of cooperation and coordination.
The primary challenge lies in efficiently gathering, managing, and analyzing data from such a dispersed environment to make cost-effective decisions. This is where digitally-enabled IT interventions, offering full flexibility, become crucial assets for delivering value to all stakeholders.
Elhunt’s Inspection Management System offers the following functionalities:
✅ Industry Registration: Enables industry registration by capturing details such as industry type, location, investment specifics, and necessary documentation for authentication. Departments required for clearances can also be tagged.
✅ Risk-Based Sorting: Classifies industries based on risk guidelines provided by relevant departments. This categorization determines mandatory inspection schedules and generates transparent checklists.
✅ Industry Inspection: Automatically schedules inspections and assigns inspectors. It also allows for the empanelment of third-party inspectors as necessary.
✅ Notifications: Sends scheduled inspection alerts to inspectors and industries through SMS and email, ensuring timely preparation and coordination.
✅ MIS Reports: Provides online access to inspection reports for company verification within 48 hours of inspection completion, facilitating efficient monitoring and compliance.
Building Plan Approval System
To address the increasing demand for housing in urban areas, accommodate industrial projects, and undertake large greenfield developments, substantial land and building construction are essential. Speed is crucial in these construction processes. Delays can result in significant cost overruns for large industries or mega building projects. Additionally, regulators play a critical role in ensuring that constructions adhere to safety standards for both people and the environment.
The system comprises the following modules:
✅ Building Plan Scrutiny: Utilizing advanced architectural science and technology, this module automates the approval process for building designs, reducing approval times from days to minutes. It employs built-in algorithms to ensure that customer-submitted CAD designs comply with stringent stakeholder requirements and building codes. Upon compliance, it generates a positive scrutiny report for the customer.
✅ Automated Fees Calculation: Once a positive scrutiny report is issued, this module automatically calculates and generates the required fees for online payment. Upon payment, the building plan is sanctioned automatically.
✅ Environment Clearance Module: This module allows Environmental Agencies to review plans, verify fees paid, and issue a No Objection Certificate (NoC) upon approval.
✅ Fire & Safety NoC: The Fire Department and Town Planners use this module to verify and approve building plans. Third-party agencies can also access this module for clearance purposes.
✅ Multi-Stage Inspection & Notifications: Designed for real-time updates on construction progress, this module enables authorities to inspect and approve construction stages. Customers can upload periodic progress reports accessible in real-time from onsite or remote locations.
✅ Certification Module: Automatically generates digitally signed certificates upon completion of designated stages. Notifications are sent to customers, project architects, and stakeholders. Certificates are customizable to meet the requirements of the land management agency.
✅ Document Vault: An online repository where customers securely store digitally signed documents, eliminating the need for paper copies.
Land Allotment System
A straightforward, transparent, and effective governance and regulatory framework is crucial for facilitating business operations within a country. Enhancing the ease of doing business not only boosts investor confidence but also attracts Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs). Transparent regulations reduce business costs and empower small and local enterprises to pursue their entrepreneurial goals. Leveraging technology can establish a rule-based business environment, eliminating structural bottlenecks in supply and demand that may hinder economic growth.
Therefore, it is crucial for governments to instill confidence within the industrial community for establishing their businesses. Many governments are implementing measures to streamline and introduce complete transparency in land allotments for industrial and commercial purposes. The use of technology can significantly reduce the bottlenecks associated with manual processes. These technological interventions collaborate with various departments to ensure a seamless, transparent, and efficient process.
Here are the rewritten key features of the system:
✅ GIS Mapping of Land Assets: The GIS module is highly customizable, displaying available land parcels with details like road frontage, corner positioning, Floor Space Index (FSI), setback requirements, and other parameters.
✅ Customer Profile Management: Prospective customers can create profiles in the system, receiving a unique customer number for tracking transactions. The module allows customers to request plot customizations (adding adjacent plots or resizing) based on their project needs. They can also submit project proposals requiring land.
✅ Approval Module: Central to the system, this module evaluates project proposals and allocates land. It uses Machine Learning to automatically assess 75% of project feasibility based on predefined criteria, with an option for manual scrutiny as needed.
✅ Meeting Scheduler: Facilitates scheduling meetings for manual evaluation of project proposals by committees, ensuring convenient coordination of dates and times.
✅ Integration with Payment Gateway: Upon project approval, the system issues an approval letter and directs customers to make online payments via an integrated payment gateway.
✅ Issuance of Digitally Signed Documents: After payment, the system generates digitally signed possession letters and agreements for customers.
Post Allotment Application System
Managing land doesn’t end with allotment at Elhunt. Their Land Allotment system ensures transparency, enhancing business ease for industries. However, ensuring adherence to stated objectives and submitted plans post-allotment is crucial for fostering a well-managed business and governance ecosystem. This remains a challenge for agencies handling large land parcels, often where deviations occur between planned and actual infrastructure. The primary issue is the inability to seamlessly manage change requests throughout the process.
After the land is allotted and building plans approved, managing associated activities becomes a priority. Since businesses form the majority of customers, there are frequent approvals needed, plan adjustments based on business needs, and compliance with regulations. To automate these workflows and ensure timely and seamless provision of facilities to customers, Elhunt has developed the Post Allotment Application System, as part of its Land and Industry suite.
The Post Allotment Application System includes the following modules:
✅ Temporary Construction Permit: Quickly approves time-bound temporary constructions needed by businesses, with tracking and dismantling post expiration.
✅ Mortgage Permission: Tracks and generates digitally signed mortgage permission letters required for securing loans quickly.
✅ Amalgamation: Allows combining multiple adjacent land parcels, providing dynamic plot control features to assess FSI and building parameters before application.
✅ Sub-division: Permits investors to divide or relinquish unutilized areas of their plots as needed.
✅ Additional FSI: Enables application for additional Floor Space Index (FSI), checking availability from the FSI bank in the ERP, and reflecting approved FSI in the applicant’s account.
✅ Extension in Time Schedule: Monitors FSI utilization and building construction timelines, prompting plot holders to request extensions as per policy in exceptional cases.
✅ Plot Forfeiture: Initiates penalty determination and refund processes when dues are not received by the due date, marking the plot as vacant in the GIS after approval.
✅ Plot Surrender: Verifies full payment of dues before processing applications to surrender plots, generating digitally signed surrender documents and marking plots as vacant in GIS.
✅ Change in Land Use: Allows plot holders to seek permission to change land use (Industrial/Residential/Commercial), updating the master plan of the industrial area accordingly.
✅ Change in Activity or Production Capacity: Enables permissions for changing manufacturing/commercial activities or production capacities approved for plots, maintaining a history of all changes in the system.
CSR Monitoring System
Over the past two decades, there has been notable economic growth and increased global integration, leading to significant transformations in the business environment. This evolution has prompted heightened scrutiny of businesses’ roles within society by various stakeholders. Governments worldwide have implemented diverse regulatory measures to influence corporate conduct, emphasizing enhanced accountability, transparency, and proactive engagement. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become closely intertwined with goals of inclusive and sustainable development. Addressing a wide array of social, environmental, and global challenges, CSR is recognized as a multifaceted governmental concern.
Governments play a pivotal role in supporting CSR initiatives through legislative frameworks, fostering collaboration with businesses, and ensuring corporate adherence to societal norms and regulations. Corporations, in turn, stand to benefit from these engagements by bolstering their social credibility and public acceptance. CSR initiatives offer strategic advantages, enhancing competitiveness and positioning within the market.
Emerging economies in Asia and Africa face particular challenges in promoting a CSR agenda while simultaneously fostering a conducive business environment for their private sectors. The heightened regulatory requirements and added costs associated with mandatory CSR expenditures must be carefully balanced against the benefits of incentivizing responsible private enterprises. Moreover, government agencies encounter difficulties in prioritizing initiatives, raising awareness, mobilizing resources, creating incentives, and garnering support for CSR efforts.
Effective utilization of existing initiatives and capacities hinges on their integration into a comprehensive national strategy that addresses current needs, opportunities, and constraints. To achieve this objective, the adoption of relevant software for planning, managing, and monitoring CSR activities becomes indispensable.
Elunt’s CSR Portal is a specialized software designed to centralize CSR-related data within a unified system, offering the following features:
✅ Aggregation of CSR information and company preferences.
✅ Comprehensive details on all CSR projects.
✅ Centralized login platform for all stakeholders.
✅ Compilation of government requirements.
✅ Information repository on all companies within the state.
✅ Guidance for corporates on state Human Development Index (HDI) and priority gap areas.
✅ Repository of CSR awards, achievements, news, and events.
✅ Platform for providing feedback and accessing FAQs, among other functionalities.
Single Window System
In many regions worldwide, the process of establishing an industry remains highly cumbersome, beginning with individual offline submission of applications through multiple manual interfaces. Offline processing and fee payment for applications often lead to unnecessary procedural delays. Coupled with extended turnaround times for clearances from various departments, a lack of tracking mechanisms for application status, and undefined timelines, the entire process moves at a sluggish pace.
The World Bank assesses Ease of Doing Business scores on a scale of 0 to 100, focusing on over 370 reform action points aimed at simplifying governmental regulations and systems. These reforms target areas such as labor regulations, construction permits, property registrations, inspections, and environmental clearances. Higher scores result in improved rankings, indicating that a country has business-friendly laws and a regulatory environment conducive to local business operations.
As of 2019, the average global Ease of Doing Business score stands at 63. There are stark disparities when comparing the scores of OECD countries, which average 78, with those of the African region, averaging 52. Africa’s performance is notably lower, especially when contrasted with East Asia and the Pacific region. Key challenges include stringent bureaucratic processes for business setup and operation, limited access to credit, inefficiencies in business tax systems, minimal protections for private sector participants, inadequate legal enforcement of business contracts, and generally unfavorable conditions for international trade.
Only two Sub-Saharan African economies rank among the top 50 globally, with the majority placed in the bottom 20. Despite these challenges, the region performs relatively well in starting a business and accessing credit. Countries like Kenya, Rwanda, and Zambia are among the top 10 globally in these categories. Over the years, the process of starting a business in the region has improved significantly, now taking around 20 days and costing 33.5% of income per capita, compared to 62 days and 305% of income per capita in 2003.
However, despite efforts to reform regulatory systems, progress across the region has been slow and largely incremental. Governments aiming to improve their global rankings must leverage the latest technologies to enhance customer satisfaction, particularly focusing on the needs of industries.
Elhunt’s Single Window System for Investor Facilitation is a digital and seamless platform designed to streamline industrial approvals at both pre-establishment and pre-operations stages. Here are its key features:
✅ Unified Application Form: A standardized form for all industrial approvals, eliminating paperwork and redundancy.
✅ GIS-enabled Online Portal: Facilitates the identification of suitable industrial plots, incorporating details such as location, amenities, and regulatory compliance.
✅ Integrated Permitting: Streamlines the processing and issuance of utility permits, licenses, and No Objection Certificates (NOCs) through a single interface.
✅ Incentives Management: Calculates, approves, and disburses incentives electronically, ensuring transparency and efficiency.
✅ Integration with Other Systems:
– Building Plan Approval System
– Automated Post Allotment Application
– CSR Monitoring System
– Inspection Management System
✅ Online Payments: Enables secure online transactions for all fees and charges associated with the application process.
✅ Digitally Signed Documentation: Generates digitally signed receipts and certifications, ensuring authenticity and reducing paperwork.
✅ Grievance Redressal Mechanism: Includes an integrated system for timely resolution of grievances raised by investors or stakeholders.
✅ Dashboard and Reports: Provides real-time tracking of application status, performance analytics, and industry-specific reports.
Integrated Land Management Information System
Land use plays a pivotal role in the economic, social, and environmental progress of a nation. Both investment competitiveness and Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) are critical requirements for states and investors, heavily reliant on an efficient Land Management Ecosystem. The transition from cumbersome manual processes, involving multiple government authorities throughout the investor journey, underscores the adoption of automated Land Management Systems. According to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2022, global foreign direct investment (FDI) surged by 64% in 2021, reaching nearly $1.6 trillion.
By 2050, it is projected that 68% of the global population will reside in urban areas (UN), underscoring significant urbanization trends. These statistics emphasize the imperative for countries to maintain high rankings on the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) index to attract developmental investments. This compels nations to continually refine their business standards and processes, ensuring they are investor-friendly based on predefined criteria, thereby fostering multidimensional economic growth. The land management system stands out as a crucial yardstick in this effort, offering an end-to-end digitalized process to support these objectives.
ILMIS: Integrated Land Management Information System
ILMIS has been implemented to enhance the efficiency of current land services offered by the city government. This centralized, highly secure, and robust Integrated Land Management Information System represents a potentially transformative solution for investors, facilitating a seamless user experience when accessing services. ILMIS enables paperless and contactless transactions, reducing the need for multiple interactions with land administration and development authorities.
The system integrates with a repository of land banks, providing information on various types of lands such as vacant, developed, and developing lands, readily accessible to investors. Utilizing GIS mapping of the land bank, real-time information on industrial land availability and resources is available, empowering investors to choose locations for industries without frequent visits to land locations or offices of land-owning entities. The system offers fully automated processes for land approvals and acquisition, incorporating the following modules:
ILMIS Functional Modules:
✅ User Management: This module enables users to create and manage various user accounts within the system.
✅ Project Management Information System (PMIS): A comprehensive system designed to initiate, execute, and monitor the management of projects and land allocation processes.
✅ Document Management System (DMS): This repository stores and manages all land-related documents digitally, ensuring easy access and secure storage.
✅ Reporting and Analysis: Provides insights into organizational activities through data visualization, dashboards, and analytics, supporting informed decision-making.
✅ E-tendering: Simplifies the procurement process by digitizing documentation and communication, enhancing transparency and reducing costs.
✅ E-Service, Information, and Collaboration: Enhances customer awareness and transparency through effective communication channels for service delivery.
✅ Mobile Application: Offers 24/7 real-time access to critical data and allows interaction with the system from remote locations, improving accessibility and efficiency.
Benefits of ILMIS:
✅ Establishes a transparent and accountable mechanism for land provision.
✅ Simplifies effective land management with a robust ownership system, fostering an efficient market environment.
✅ Streamlines land information through an integrated land management system, promoting good governance.
✅ Centralizes data management in a repository, ensuring comprehensive data storage.
✅ Integrates multiple individual land management systems for enhanced efficiency.
✅ Facilitates easy sharing of data among land development and management bureau offices through a common database and web portal platform.