Hyderabad: If plans of the Telangana government fructify, every household in Hyderabad will be mapped using GIS (Geographic Information System) in the next two years. The administration has sought the help of Survey of India (SOI) to geo-tag every house in the GHMC limits to extend them better services and ensure transparency.
Giving details, Surveyor General of India Dr Swarna Subba Rao said the state government had approached them for 3D mapping of the city. He would be meeting minister K.T. Rama Rao to discuss the matter.
Mr Subba Rao said GIS technology is used for capturing, storing, checking, and displaying data related to each house and street in the city so that the authorities could see, analyze and understand details of a house or property -- like built-up area, details of property tax, electricity and water bills etc. This exercise, he said, would help in weeding out bogus and duplicate ration cards and in identification of unauthorised structures.
The SOI chief said that a similar exercise was taken up in New Delhi. “We surveyed and mapped the national capital and integrated information relating to 33 departments,” he said.
The Surveyor General felt that geo-mapping in GHMC would prove beneficial as was seen in the case of Kanpur Municipal Corporation. Before Kanpur was mapped, the property tax collections were of Rs 7 crore. Three years after the mapping, it touched Rs 21 crore.
