AutoDCR® is a unique and innovative e-governance solution for automation of building plan scrutiny and approval. It reads CAD drawings and maps them to the development control regulations for approval by municipal corporations and approving authorities. AutoDCR® is one of the most widely implemented architecture engineering software for e-governance of building plans across India. It is seamlessly integrated to an online approval workflow to monitor the approval process with associated document scrutiny and site visits (where applicable). It integrates SMS and Personal Digital Assistants for creating alerts and notifications to concerned authorities. AutoDCR® acts as a unified platform for the citizens, urban local bodies and authorities. It helps in improving compliance, efficiency and effectiveness through collaboration between urban local bodies, government, citizens and other stakeholders.

1. AutoDCR®
SoftTech Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
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Automated Building Plan Scrutiny and Approval System
Product of SoftTech Engineers Pvt. Ltd.

2. AutoDCR®
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E-Governance Solutions…
• A base between Government and Citizen and the
other Govt. Depts.
• Improving E-Readiness Index on global front.
Interact
• Integrates Electronic Record Management System
with E-Government.Integrate
• Empowering speedy Infrastructure development.
• Abiding the JnNURM guidelines for a comprehensive
development of Municipal Corporations.
Empower

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Overview of Manual Building plan Approval
process
Document Validation & Verification
(6 Working Days)
Site Inspection
(6 Working Days)
Drawing Scrutiny
(8 Working Days)
Payments at Single Window
(3 Working Days)
REJECTIONNOTICELETTERISSUEDTO
ARCHITECT,NOTIFYBYPOST
Application Hard copy submitted to Single
window
ISSUE OF FINAL APPROVAL CERTIFICATE
(3 Working Days)
Verifying hard copies of
documents
Do site inspection and
compare with site Plan
Manual Scrutiny of
Drawings
Payments by Cash/
Cheque/ DD.
Resubmission
Requires total
26
working days
Process Flow

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Issues & Challenges in Manual Process
Slow and error prone manual approval process
Impact
• Errors and variance in
evaluation
• Loss of revenue
• High number of
Lokayukta/ RTI cases
related to plan
scrutiny
• No measurement of
efficiency.
Corporation
• Loss of confidence
• Likelihood of corrupt
practices
• Needed to visit offices
physically for status
updates
Citizens
• Status tracking of
application is a
cumbersome process
• Decentralized
application
submission process
• Lack of transparency
• Historical application
data/ MIS not readily
available.
Architects/ Builders

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AutoDCR® - High level workflow
DOCUMENT VALIDATION & SCRUTINY
Scans documents & attachments.
SITE INSPECTION (Manual Process)
DRAWING SCRUTINY (Max 15 Minutes)
AutoDCR checks compliance to DC Rules & produces Report
PAYMENTS (1 Working day)
Demand note generation to architect/ Citizen and payment
realization
ISSUE OF FINAL APPROVAL CERTIFICATE
(Immediate)
REJECTIONNOTICETOARCHITECT
Incaseofdiscrepancies
ONLINE APPLICATION SUBMISSION
ALERTSANDMIS
REPORTS
Mail.SMS&WEB
PAYMENT
GATEWAY
INTEGRATION
Resubmission
Total
14-15
Working days

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ABPAS Using AutoDCR®
Innovation
• Automates scrutiny
of drawings vis-à-vis
DC rules/ Building
bye laws
Acceleration
• Accelerates scrutiny
process by
eliminating lengthy
and cumbersome
computations
Collaboration
• Enables collaboration
between various
stakeholders
Accountability
• Authorized roles and
responsibilities
Performance
Monitoring
• Provides alerts and
reports for different
stakeholders via SMS
and email
An unique CAD
based building
plan scrutiny
and approval
application,
already
implemented
at 35+ urban
development
authorities

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AutoDCR: Governing Rules for Building
Permission
AutoDCR, a solution for automated
building plan scrutiny and approval, acts
as a single point of presence for the
citizens to avail the government services
and integrate stakeholders on a common
platform.
AutoDCR is a unique and innovative way
of automatic scrutiny of building plans by
reading CAD drawings. The system reads
CAD drawing and produces scrutiny
reports in a few minutes, mapping all the
development control rules of the
Authority to the drawing entities, thus
reducing paper work, valuable time and
effort of Architect and the Authority.
24x7
service
Architect/citizen
centric solution
Transparent,
efficient and
secured delivery
Digital data
storage
Secured
customized
access
Reduction of cost
of services and
delivery

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•Standardization of submission drawings
•Simplification of approval Procedure & Process
•Increased speed, efficiency & accuracy
•Time Reduction
Architects
•Transparency
•First Come First Serve
•Anywhere & anytime access
•Uniform interpretation of Bye-laws
•Status of acceptance/ rejection could available on real time basis
Citizens
•Accuracy in area & Fee calculations
•Consistency in interpretation of rules.
•Storage and archival of all digitized data records
•Generation of regular MIS report & evaluation of workforce efficiency.
Corporation
Benefits of AutoDCR®

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Testimonials from Beneficiaries
In the area of Building Plan Approval Application, there is no better choice than AutoDCR® as it completely
automates the entire Application-to –Approval process. SoftTech has truly exceeded our expectations with
its AutoDCR® application. Working with them we realized that we made the right choice because they bring
in not only technology but significant domain experience, implementation skills and the commitment to
make things happen. Rajesh Phadke, Vice President-Planning
Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation has been using AutoDCR® software developed by SoftTech
Engineering Private Limited for entire Building Plan Approval activity. This software is in operation since 2008
and from January 2010 to December 2010, 4000 files have been processed through this software. Today
CCMC has been able to bring down the time taken for approval to less then 7 days.
Commissioner : Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation
Implementation of AutoDCR® has brought a great deal of transparency and uniformity . Architects and
Developers are able to understand why a particular decision of acceptance or rejection of proposal is taken
by the corporation. Pune Municipal Corporation is first in the country to make it possible.
Commissioner, Pune Municipal Corporation

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Rd, Pune- 411 009 , Maharashtra, India
Thank You
AutoDCR®
SoftTech Engineers Pvt. Ltd.
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