The Thane civic body will soon launch an online portal to clear building proposals. Officials hope that the civic portal will streamline the realty sector and help bring in transparency and accountability while sanctioning the proposals of building projects. The proposed name of the domain is tmc.tp. “The plans will be sanctioned online within a timeframe. Once an architect submits a proposal to the town planning department, he need not make rounds of the corporation office to check its status and wait for a written okay from the officer concerned. Instead, a surveyor or an assistant director will scrutinize the proposal online and then put his seal of approval, should the plan comply with the Development Control Rules. A delay in issuing the clearance will have to be justified with written reasons,” the Thane municipal commissioner said. Software professional Prashant Ugemuge, who has designed the portal, said it was similar to a document-tracking system and the civic chief ...