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Ground survey fast nearing completion for GIS project 22 sq.km civil area out of 42 sq.km to be mapped HYDERABAD: The extent of illegal buildings in Secunderabad Cantonment is slowly being unravelled. All the unaccounted constructions are coming out in the open with the ground survey and mapping of properties fast nearing completion for the GIS project. Digital photography and door to door survey of up to 50,000 households including slums has been completed and another 20,000 households are to be covered following which a comprehensive database of properties, built up area and details of amenities in each house will be available. Finer details like type of construction, residential or commercial, floor space area, height, water and sewer connections, borewells and so on are also being enumerated. It will be for the first time such a survey is being taken up here or for that matter in any other 62-odd Cantonments spread across the country. “The study is vital as we do not have factual information on properties or amenities or encroachments. This has prevented us from taking up integrated development. We will be having an authentic database for better planning and civic amenities once work is complete,” avers Secunderabad Cantonment Board (SCB) Chief Executive Officer V. Premchand. SCB had sourced satellite data of May 2008 from the National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA) paying Rs. 1.1 lakh and obtaining 60 centimetres resolution images. The imagery with minute details will be juxtaposed with ground level information to make up GIS data. About 22 sq.km of civil area of the total 42 sq.km is to be mapped. Official property tax records show only 35,000 households while proper data is lacking on a number of water connections or even streetlights. All it has is a 1905 British made map! A pilot study of a prominent enclave had also shown there are three times more structures on ground while records show just 1,200 indicating the acute variation! The CEO pressed for the GIS project to correct the anomaly and got it cleared from top defence authorities. For the last three months, 22 two-member teams have been fanning out in all the eight wards with a register and a digital camera taking down notes and recording details of 600 properties daily. Many complaintsEnumeration of commercial space can also bring in more revenue to SCB with better assessment as it has been collecting uniform property tax for both residential and commercial properties so far. Right now, SCB depends more on Toll tax and Octroi over which there are many complaints. The Rs. 50-lakh project is being taken up by the Institute of Electronic Governance (IEG) and a private agency -- Quantum Asia Pvt. Ltd. -- has been doing the ground work. “People have been cooperating with us. We are on schedule,” say G. Mani Pratap and T. Ashwin Kumar, Project Heads. Concurs Mr. Premchand: “We plan to complete the survey and satellite imagery integration work by the month-end”. Utilities mapping like roads, drains, poles, etc., too is to follow suit.
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