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Web-GIS based urban planning and information system for municipal corporations - A distributed and real-time system for public utility and toen planning
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 Fig. 5: Urban Planning and Information System System Implementation The Study Area Burgeoning Information Technology sector has forced Municipal Corporations throughout the world to improve their day-to-day functions and services. Best usages are often in the areas of town planning, utility management, socio-economic planning, infokiosk and property taxation. Mostly their planning and functioning are common and similar. Therefore, the potential of introducing Internet and Intranet based IT solutions are huge and repetitive in nature. Sensing this is a prospect, TATA Infotech studied systematically and scientifically operations of few municipal corporations in India. Through such studies TATA Infotech has developed packaged solutions with the state-of-art technologies GIS, Web and RDBMS to utility planning (PUPIS) and town planning (DPIS). These packaged solutions can be implemented in client-server architecture using intranet or internet backbone. We have implemented these solutions at Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) to automate their day-to-day functioning. Nashik Municipal Corporation Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) is authority looking after the Nashik Metropolitan area. It has eleven departments through which the civic operations are carried out. Municipal Commissioner heads the corporation. At present NMC does not have any full -fledged software application which will help the authorities at NMC to take decisions on important matters related to civic operations (TATA Infotech Ltd., 2001). The Town Planning Department looks after the planning activities of the Municipal Corporation. It looks after the sanctioning of plots for construction, identifying encroachments based on complaints, sanctioning of the TDR, preparing the survey maps, DP maps. The department takes decisions on allocating lands for some specific use. It also manages the reserved lands, buildings under reservations. The Town Planning department needs to have access to the information regarding the development plan details, layout details, road details, areas under reservations so that the decision-making is simplified and the data is available to all the officials in the six ward offices. The Roads and Building Dept looks after the maintenance of Roads and Buildings of Nashik City. The maintenance of roads includes tarring of DP roads, layout roads. The maintenance involves concretisation, tarring, widening etc. Currently there are 1049 Km of roads are in Nashik. The department looks after NMC properties on lease in terms of revenue and maintenance. There are 125 school buildings, 13000 toilets, 200 samaj mandirs and 100 health clubs under the building department. The department prepares incident report on daily, weekly, half-yearly and yearly basis.  Fig. 6: Data Entry Screen for Entering Attribute Data for each Road The Estate and Land Acquisition Department looks after the acquisition of the land under reservations or lands, which are identified for specific purpose. Whenever a land has been identified for acquisition, first the owner of the land is notified. After that the process is initiated for taking over the land. If the owner does not agree to the settlement and refers the matter to court, then the department follows the set procedures. During this procedure, the file related to the matter is sent or received from either collectorate or the department. The details are put on to this file and referred as and when required. When the settlement is done, the details like date of settlement, amount etc is noted and the file is closed. The acquired land is then looked after by Estate dept. It maintains information about the property. The department maintains the registers for immovable property and lands. Encroachment & Taxation Department have currently 6 divisions through which the department functions. The respective divisions look after their areas to monitor the encroachment. The department also looks after the removal of unauthorised properties, encroachment on the roads, open spaces, reserved plots etc. The Encroachment dept takes inputs from the Town Planning department about the properties on which encroachment has been done. Also encroachment on roads is also controlled. Daily or monthly tax is collected from the hawkers in the market area. The respective division collects this and the consolidated figure of the total tax collected is then sent to the head office every month. Also these divisions collect different taxes identified as Misc. Taxes. The consolidated amounts of which are reported to the head office at the end of every month. The department keeps a record of the actions taken on illega l properties on daily basis. The Health & Sanitatin Department looks after the Sanitation of the Nasik city. The Garden Department looks after maintaining of the Gardens in the Nasik city. The Fire Department looks after the prevention of fire and other hazards and takes necessary action during emergency. The Water Supply department provides water through pipelines to various amenities of the city. It maintains water supply and related infrastructure. The Sewerage Operations department looks after sewerage disposal and maintenance activities besides identifying treatment sites. The Electricity department supplies and maintains electric poles/ bulbs/ supply source/ cabling all over the corporation limit.  Fig. 7: Water Supply Maintenance Report for a Particular Period |