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 applicants to secure the required NOCs themselves. The process often forced people to make repeated visits to different departments, stretching the approval timeline to three or four months, press release said. Under the new system, the LDA has fully digitised the process through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Once a map application is submitted, the authority will initiate the NOC issuance process through ERP. After the department concerned approves the NOC digitally, it will automatically be delivered to the applicant's registered WhatsApp number. Officials said this step will not only save time but also reduce unnecessary human interaction, bringing transparency and efficiency into the system. Kumar emphasised that along with the LDA's own NOCs, the authority will now track approvals from the tehsil and Jalkal departments as well....