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Infrastructure :
January - February 1999
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Autodesk GIS product for APIIC
GIS on Indian Road Congress’ Agenda
Reliance’s dream pipeline gets green light
Delhi Government seeks $1 billion World Bank Loan
Utility Mapping to be done by NIC
Social Implications of a Map
Autodesk GIS product for APIIC
CADD Masters Bureau Services Pvt. Ltd., part of the Autodesk Virtual Corporation, has developed a unique GIS-based computer solution for the State-owned Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Ltd. (APIIC). The system would help in easy data entry and retrieval; online allotment and automatic generation of documents, letters, sale agreements; facilitate online information on dues and balance; document management including scanning and archieving of documents; GIS features such as spatial and attribute analysis; and Web-enabled marketing and layout information. Entrepreneurs owning plots in APIIC-assisted industrial estates will be able to get instant information about their dues to the APIIC and the Local municipality and could even pay them online. A prospective entrepreneur could get layout information in all the industrial estates, identifying the plot of his choice and get online allotment. This project will also improve the APIIC’s internal efficiency as the zonal offices and the head office would have easy access to information about the industrial estates. The EIS is hoped to be operational by March 1999, and the software package used in it will provide land acquisition data including survey number, district, mandal and village data, estate and phase information, infrastructure details and its strengths about roads, water, sewerage and electricity facilities in the region.
GIS on Indian Road Congress' Agenda
The Indian Road Congress (IRC), the body of road builders have planned to use GIS as a tool for planning road development and to encourage private participation in road development through the BOT (build, operate, transfer) system. This, along with other resolutions, was declared in the latest Annual Session of the 59th Indian Road Congress (IRC). The existing national highways network is highly deficient due to inadequate capacity, insufficient pavement, weak and distressed bridges, congested city sections and railway crossings.
Reliance’s dream pipeline gets green light
The Rs. 4,500 crore mega pipeline proposed by Reliance Industries to link six states has got the go-ahead from the expert committee set up to evaluate the project. Petronet India, the joint venture pipeline company, has decided to take a 26% stake in the project which will link six states. Covering the entire central India and some of the South, the pipeline will link the Jamnagar refineries to Hyderabad via Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Reliance has already prepared the basic engineering package and is carrying out satellite imagery to map the topography.
Delhi Government seeks $1 billion World Bank Loan
The Delhi Government has approached the Finance Ministry to negotiate a World Bank loan for $1 billion to redraft the electricity and water supply systems in the state and to fund the slump development programs. Officials have disclosed that the State Government has mooted an innovative model, whereby the funds from the World Bank would accrue to an Indian financial Institution-most likely to be the Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (IDFC). The IDFC in turn will not only provide the funding to the Delhi Government, but also be a technology provider-by bringing in various firms with core competence in providing the technology. The Congress-led Delhi Government has already decided to privatize the power distribution in the state presently handled by the Delhi Vidyut Board.
Officials are assured that with this model, they would not be dependent on the World Bank all the time. Under this proposal, the Delhi Government will finally be able to form an independent, Statutory Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) to undertake licensing of new capacity, prescribe performance standards and tariffs after appropriate consultations. In addition to this, there will be a Delhi Power Generation and Transmission Company registered under the companies act, which will manage the existing and planned generating stations as well as extra high voltage transmission network up to 220kv.
Utility Mapping to be done by NIC
The National Informatics Center (NIC) has been commissioned with a Utility Mapping project for Delhi, which could provide information on the traces of networks like water, sewerage, electricity, telecommunication and road network. Also, it is going to create a brief of Delhi House Locator, whose database, they are sure, is going to be very easy even for a constable to use.
Social Implications of a Map
In the wake of recent attacks on the Christians, the erratum of the name of a Christian dominated area ‘Masihgarh’ as ‘Ramgarh’ in the Guide Map of Delhi published by a private publishing company, The Indian Book Depot (Bahadurgarh Road) has created a controversy and a sense of insecurity in the people of Masihgarh. Both the publisher and the Survey of India people are passing on the blame on each other.The publisher sustains that all their maps are fully based on the maps brought out by the Survey of India that mentions ‘Masihgarh’ as ‘Ramgarh’. But denying this, the Survey of India people said that the organisation is not responsible for such errors by private publishers.
Meanwhile, weird incidents have been happening in the area since some time. About four months back, the Bajrang Dal people had forcefully interrupted a prayer meeting in the local church and some days back the signboard of Masihgarh was either stolen or intentionally removed.
And the interesting part in all this is that the MCD is totally unaware of all this, which indicates either the carelessness of the authorities or some kind of political involvement in the matter. Hence following that apart from other applications of Guide Maps, these are the new applications which some ‘smart’ users are taking advantage of !!!
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