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Property enumeration & mapping system for Bangalore
 Harmit Kalra CEO, Magnasoft Consulting India Pvt. Ltd. # 8, Richmond Circle, Lalbagh Road, Bangalore bobby@mssglobal.com
Abstract
The paper discusses the Property Enumeration and Mapping System developed and implemented by Magnasoft Consulting India Pvt. Limited (MCIPL) for Ward 76 of Bangalore City under the administration of the Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP). BMP is the local municipal body primarily responsible for property assessment and revenue generation. The scope of work encompassed computerization of property tax assessment records, property enumeration and household survey, creation of property maps, generation of attribute data from survey records and integration to individual property maps. The GIS application was customized to handle a series of analytical queries with different display and reporting options. Introduction The Government of Karnataka with several eminent Professionals as members constituted the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF). The BATF has actively encouraged civic-minded individuals and corporate bodies to identify with the City’s aspirations in health, education and infrastructure activities. The objectives laid down by the Government of Karnataka include making Bangalore the best city in India by 2004 and augmenting the financial resources stakeholders to enable them to perform at world-class levels. BATF was constituted to create a platform for different agencies and integrate short and long-term plans. Its main goal was to identify problem areas, find solutions and help agencies implement them. This included:
Background BMP, the Municipal Corporation of Bangalore is responsible for providing basic facilities to the people of the city. Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India has grown rapidly in the past decade. There has also been a tremendous rise in the services to be provided by BMP. It was identified that the service level had to be improved and project execution had to be done in the shortest time possible. The actual practice of property tax assessment in BMP has not been satisfactory for want of a proper system of determining the gross rental values for buildings. Certain guidelines had to be developed for arriving at the gross annual rent in a manner that would be reasonable, transparent and uniform, and which would eliminate the wide exercise of powers of discretion currently assumed by the assessing officers resulting in widespread corruption in assessment. As a result of consultations with the concerned officials and citizens, it was concluded that BMP has to strengthen its capacity principally in areas of revenue mobilization, solid waste management and financial management, over and above other areas. Bangalore has witnessed rapid growth in population in the last decade resulting in increased burden on existing land resources. The local planners and tax officials are constantly burdened with a plethora of information that is complex and dynamic. Project Overview & Objectives The objectives of the system were to streamline the tax assessment operations and promote transparency in the taxation structure, thereby facilitating short-term revenue enhancement. It was required that the information be documented systematically, which would help in efficient administration and tax collection. In order to achieve this, the data collected included population, voters, number of properties, property tax assesses, amount of tax collection, etc. The primary goals of this system included computerization of property tax records, property enumeration, mapping of all properties and the development of a intervention package that included both immediate service improvements and property reassessment.  
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