1. Solutions for Smart Infrastructure Governance
AutoDCR® - Building Plan Scrutiny & Approval
SoftTech Engineers
Software product innovators for Architecture-Engineering-Construction
Private Limited

2. SoftTech Executive Summary
Leadership with extensive experiences in the AEC
(Architecture-Engineering-Construction) domain
Headquartered in Pune with local and global presence
ISO 9001:2008 accredited
Alliance with global leaders viz. IBM, Microsoft, Auto Desk
Proven track record as Software Product Innovators in the
AEC domain
> 750 person years of development and implementation
experience
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3. SoftTech – An Award Winning Company
Best practice for World Leadership Manthan Award Good e-Maharashtra
building plan Award 2007 South Asia 2010 Governance 2012 Award
approval Award 2010
Civil & Architectural e-governance in National Best Urban ICT
Ministry of Engineering for “Digital inclusion for Technology Initiative
Urban Building Plan & development” Leadership
Development Approval
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4. SoftTech’s Product Portfolio
SoftTech offers innovative products innovate the way in which infrastructure
assets are planned, designed, approved, procured, managed and
maintained
An unique CAD based building plan scrutiny and approval application
already implemented at 35+ urban development authorities
A web based solution for managing the core functional processes of
works, procurement and maintenance in public works organizations
An innovative Design Office Management solution for Architects that
helps them to collaborate and manage tasks, workflow and content
An ERP for managing the construction lifecycle for construction
enterprises– real estate and contractor companies
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5. Working harder is not sustainable
We require innovative approaches
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6. Organizations managing urban Infrastructure must deliver sustainable
performance by…
Leveraging
information to make
better decisions Anticipating problems
to resolve them
Pull and interpret data proactively
across departments and
applications Gain insights from
analytics across work
domains
Coordinating
resources to operate …increasing the value they
effectively generate by planning,
Enable cross department procuring and maintaining
collaboration infrastructure assets
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7. Challenges in Building Plan Approval
1. Rapid urbanization of industrial, commercial and residential properties
2. Complex Bye Laws
3. Slow and error prone manual approval process
Resulting in
1. Chances of human errors while reading drawings manually
2. Subjectivity and lack of uniformity in interpretation of bye laws
3. Inadequate visibility of proposal progress
4. Delays in approval resulting in reduced collection of fees which
contribute to revenue
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8. AutoDCR – Innovating the process of Building Plan approvals
Automates scrutiny of
Innovation drawings vis-à-vis DC
rules/ Building bye laws
Provides alerts Accelerates
Performance scrutiny process
and reports for Acceleration
Monitoring
different by eliminating
stakeholders via lengthy and
SMS and email cumbersome
computations
Enables
Maps authorized
Accountability Collaboration collaboration
roles and
between various
responsibilities
stakeholders
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9. AutoDCR - High level workflow for Building Plan Approvals
ONLINE APPLICATION
REJECTION NOTICE TO ARCHITECT SUBMISSION
DOCUMENT VALIDATION & SCRUTINY
ALERTS AND MIS
Scans documents & attachments. Collect Scrutiny Fees
Mail. SMS & WEB
In case of discrepancies
REPORTS
SITE INSPECTION
Mobile device integration for site inspection images and reports
DRAWING SCRUTINY
AutoDCR checks compliance to DC Rules & produces Report
PAYMENT
PAYMENTS
GATEWAY
Demand note generation to architect and payment realization
INTEGRATION
DIGITAL
ISSUE OF COMMENCEMENT CERTIFICATE SIGNATURE
INTEGRATION
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10. Online Proposal Submission through AutoDCR
Architect fills in proposal online.
Attaches supporting
documentation
Attaches the Drawings
Gets File No. and
Acknowledgement for future
reference
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11. Scrutiny of documents by authorities
Authorities will view documents
submitted and verify
Generate Acknowledgement
letter for the documents
submitted by the Architect
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12. Technical Scrutiny of Drawings
Failed Entities are automatically
identified from CAD Drawings
Text Reports are generated
relating conformances and
non conformances
Area Statements are
calculated from CAD Drawings
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13. Calculation of Fees and Issue of Demand Note
1. Automatically calculates fee
required to be paid
2. Generates letters and
receipts.
3. Payment alerts through SMS
/ e-Mails
4. Facility to integrate with
Payment Gateways
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14. Generation of Permission Certificate
1. System Generated
Permission Letters and
Certificates.
2. Localized Certificates.
3. Attaching conditions and
remarks on certificates.
4. Permission alerts through
SMS / e-Mails.
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15. Captures full legal case history of any application at one place
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16. Can integrate and enable NOCs from other departments
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17. On line proposal status tracking by Citizens
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18. Online TDR (Transfer of Development Rights) Status Tracking by
citizens
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19. Reports & Analytics – Providing insights and decision support
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20. Our key customers
Pune Municipal Municipal Corporation Corporation of
Corporation of Greater Mumbai Chennai
Coimbatore City Maharashtra Industrial Thane Municipal
Municipal Corporation Dev. Corporation Corporation
Thiruvanthapuram Bhubaneswar
Municipal Nagpur Development
Corporation, Kerala Municipal Corporation Authority
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21. Our key customers (contd.)
Pimpri Chinchwad Hubli Dharwad Jaipur Development
Municipal Corporation Municipal Corporation Authority
Bhavnagar Gujarat International
Municipal Corporation Finance Tec-City Lavasa Corporation
Aurangabad Municipal Kolhapur Municipal Mira Bhayandar
Corporation Corporation Municipal Corporation
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22. Our key customers (contd.)
Thiruvananthapuram
Corporation Kollam Corporation Cochin Corporation
Indore Municipal
Thrissur Corporation Kozhikode Corporation Corporation
Coming soon
Ujjain Municipal Kolhapur Municipal
Corporation Corporation
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23. Customer Speak
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
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.
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.
Vice President-Planning
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24. Summary of Benefits
Uniformity and • Ensures uniform interpretation of complex rules
standardization • Standardization of process across all entities
• Transparency of process to citizens and other
Good stakeholders
governance • Compliance to Standard Operating Procedures
• Digitized data management
Better quality of • Timely delivery
services
• Visibility to Citizens
• Every process with fixed time limits
Accountability • All roles mapped
• Early alerts through SMS / Email / Web
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25. Thank You
R R Dasgupta
Member – Board of Advisors
rr.dasgupta@softtech-engr.com
SoffTech Engineers Private Limited
The Pentagon, 5A
Shahu College Road
Pune : 411009
Phone : +91 20 2421 76 76/ 8747
www.softtech-engr.com
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