Participating in a one-day workshop on Computer Aided Utility Mapping organised by the National Informatics Centre (NIC) at ASCI here, he said that the project will help in collecting information about resources in the city like water, and about facilities for sewerage, electricity, roads and communication by creating digital maps, with a view to augment urban planning.
The Central Government selected Hyderabad as one among the six cities in the country to take up the computer aided utility mapping under National Urban Renewal Mission.
The other five cities that were selected for the project are Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkatta and Mumbai. The National Urban Renewal Mission keeping in view the fact that there was a rapid urbanisation all over the nation sanctioned the project.
An outlay of Rs 5,500 crore has been earmarked in the Union Budget 2005-06 for the implementation of the project in all the six cities. The NIC, Director General, N Vijayaditya said that the project is bound to bring a change disaster management, utility mapping, generating GIS for villages to see that disparities existing the villages are corrected and proper steps ate taken.
Through this project, the six cities can get maximum benefits. He urged the civic departments and other agencies that are involved in the project to help them in preparing the GIS. Various departments should work hand-in-hand for the success of the project, Vijayaditya said. Advisor, Murali said that once the utility network records are available on the computer they could be shared among other utilities for better management of their functioning. Also it will prove to be a boon to the planning departments, as they have most accurate data available for perspective planning.
