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December 2002 |
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 concretization, 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.
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