LUCKNOW, Sept. 19 -- The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) will now send No Objection Certificates (NOCs) directly to applicants on WhatsApp for building map approvals.

This digital system will spare residents the inconvenience of visiting multiple departments and waiting months for approvals, an LDA press release stated on Thursday. It is being implemented on the initiative of LDA vice-chairman Prathamesh Kumar.

Until now, residents applying for residential or commercial building maps had to obtain several NOCs, including those for Nazul, improvement trust, sealing, acquisition, and land use from the authority itself, as well as additional approvals from the tehsil and Jalkal departments.

The LDA only issued a letter asking applican...