Mangaluru: Mayor Kavitha Sanil, directed town planning section of Mangaluru City Corporation to issue building license to applicants within seven working days, provided all criteria are met.

Complaints that people in need to construct house in single site were finding it extremely difficult to obtain building licences and that brokers were wreaking havoc and making the task more complicated than what it should have been.

Giving this ruling at the monthly meeting of the MCC council, the Mayor took note of the issue and warned the town planning officer that he will be held responsible if there were delays in issuing building license. She also instructed the commissioner Mohammad Nazeer to ensure that the rozgar section, birth and death certificate issuing section and other such departments that people frequented on a daily basis were free from the broker menace. She added that such works should be transparent and timely.