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December 2002 |
Urban Planning and Information System for Municipal Corporations
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 unauthorized 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 illegal properties on daily basis.
The Health & Sanitation 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.
Objectives
The NMC planned to develop an integrated web-GIS based system for which Tata Infotech was appointed. Currently the entire routine operations of 11 departments are done manually. However, some of the departments have stand-alone computers for their activities. The information retrieval is done through different registers and record books. The communication is through post and fax. The communication takes place through number of forms that are signed by the concerned official. The concerned persons prepare the report from the data in the register as required by the higher officials. The levels of computerization are insignificant in these departments. The different reports, registers are generated manually. Functions in different departments are carried out manually. The current volume of manual processing at the different departments makes tracking and follow up difficult. Also the data is recorded at multiple places. Routine and periodic reports are to be compiled with accuracy and speed. Manual procedures are tedious, less productive and time consuming which directly leads to subjective decision-making. The objective of this study was to understand the working and state the requirements of the 11 departments of NMC. The objective of developing the web-GIS based application system is to improve the functioning of these departments by automation, enabling the prompt decision-making by analysis, easy information retrieval and timely, accurate, complete and updated information on corporation. The above system, which is proposed, will have a centralized database residing on the dedicated server for GIS containing all the data of the NMC accessible to all the users of the departments using maps and reports instantly. This will increase their productivity and result in the prompt decision-making.
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