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Environmental Clearance

How we built our own software to prepare a complete, checked, and submission-ready Environmental Clearance application in 24 hours, with the compliance checks built in from the start.

Getting a construction project ready for Environmental Clearance is slow, careful work. The same set of figures has to be drawn out of the plans, checked against the rules, written into Form 1 and Form 1A, backed by a thick file of annexures, and finally keyed into the PARIVESH portal, all without a single number drifting out of line along the way. Done by hand, the way much of this work is still done, it usually takes the better part of two to three weeks.

So we built our own software to carry that load. The project documents and AutoCAD drawings go in, and from there our AI and automation workflows read the data, run the calculations, and put together the application. The work that used to stretch across weeks now fits inside a single day.

From drawings to a draft

Once the drawings and documents are uploaded, the software reads the project data and applies the rules that sit behind it, the GDCR, the National Building Code, and the environmental requirements the project has to meet. It works out the figures the application calls for and prepares a detailed draft report, along with Form 1, Form 1A, and the annexures that go with them. It also helps fill in the PARIVESH portal application itself, so far less of that is done by hand.

None of this was built in a vacuum. We shaped the system with senior architects, MEP consultants, and plan passing consultants, the people who live with these approvals every day, so that what it produces holds up technically and matches what a real project actually needs.

One set of data, aligned across approvals

A project rarely faces a single approval on its own. The same numbers run through the Raja Chitthi, the Environmental Clearance, the RERA filing, and the green building certification, and when each of these is prepared separately, small differences quietly slip in. A figure rounded one way in one place and another way somewhere else is enough to invite a query later.

Our software works from one common set of project data, so those figures stay aligned across all of these requirements. There is less to repeat, fewer inconsistencies to chase, and a much smaller chance of a mismatch turning up in the middle of an approval.

Adequate or inadequate, before you submit

The part of the system we lean on most is its Decision Support System. Before anything is finalised, it checks each project parameter against the norm that applies to it and says plainly whether it is adequate. Anything that falls short is highlighted in red and marked inadequate, right there on the screen.

That small step changes when problems come to light. Instead of a shortfall surfacing after submission, when sorting it out means real delay, it shows up early, while there is still room to adjust the design or the figures and send in a clean application.

Three weeks of work, ready in a day

The software does the calculating and the drafting, but it does not press submit on its own. Once a draft is ready, our technical team goes through it, checks the figures, and finalises the application before it is filed on the PARIVESH portal. The repetitive work, and the small slips that tend to come with it, are taken off our hands; the judgement stays firmly with us.

The outcome is easy to state. What normally runs to two or three weeks, we can now prepare and submit within 24 hours, as long as the developer has handed over the documents and data we need. We have already put the system to work on several construction projects, and a good number of them have come through with their clearance.

What this means for your project

Used this way, the system does a few simple things, and does them well.

The short of it

Environmental Clearance will always ask for care, and it should. What it should not ask for is weeks of repeated, manual effort, with a chance to slip at every turn. By handing that part to software and keeping the final word with our team, we have made the whole process quicker, steadier, and a good deal easier to trust.

Planning a project that needs Environmental Clearance? If your drawings and data are ready, so are we, and we would be glad to walk you through how the system works.