AMC to have a record of all the properties & municipal services in the city.
In an attempt to improve its functioning, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will soon create an elaborate map of all the properties of the city. Satellite-based technology known as Geographic Information System (GIS) will be used for the mapping. AMC has invited proposals from the interested parties for carrying out a survey in the city as well as creation of the map.
The project will help in creating a digital base-map of the city which will have a record of all properties as well as municipal services like drainage lines, water network, man-holes, streetlights and buildings and other attributes. As part of GIS mapping, each property will be given a unique number for identification in the map.
Elaborating on its benefits, manager of AMC’s e-governance department, Yatindra Nayak said, “The mapping of the properties will help a lot for property tax collection as well as for administrative purpose. With this, we can find out which area has more population density. This information can help in arranging municipal services like hospitals, water network lines, drainage lines, etc.”
The official further said that there are many properties which figure as residential units in AMC records, but are in fact commercial. “Identification of such units can increase the property tax collection significantly. Also, we can come to know of defaulters,” added the official.
The entire project will be carried out at a cost of Rs8-10 crore, out of which Rs2 crore will be funded by the central government through Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM).
While AMC has just begun with the project and invited proposals for the same, Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) began the work in 2011.
About the system and its benefits, municipal commissioner of RMC, Ajay Bhadoo said, “We finished the mapping of more than 3 lakh properties in 2013 and it has helped immensely in mapping residential and commercial units. A number of properties which were registered as residential in our records have been identified as commercial now, thus increasing the tax collection. Also, new properties coming up in the city have been mapped and the areas which are deprived of basic services have been identified with the help of this system.”
8-10 crore is the cost of the entire project, out of which Rs2 crore will be funded by the central government through JnNURM.
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