Friday, November 11, 2011: A portal that will have the 3D images of all over-ground and underground utilities like telephone lines, power cables, water and sewer lines and roads of Delhi will soon go live. The Delhi government will implement this IT project soon in order to facilitate better urban planning and governance.
It took three years for the ground work, wherein high-quality digital images of the assets were recorded using geospatial technology by the IT department of the government, states a PTI report. A senior official said that soon after the portal is launched, Delhi will come in league with the likes of New York, London and Paris, where such kind of three dimensional mapping of underground and overground utilities are available.
It is being expected that this project will cut down red tapism in getting approval for infrastructure projects and 30 agencies rendering services of public utility are being brought under this project for the same. The official said that multiplicity of authorities was a major problem in the city and the portal would help in proper coordination and planning. Various government departments will have access to the common database for design, planning, execution and monitoring of all infrastructure projects.
The Geo-spatial Data Infrastructure (Management, Control, Administration, Security and Safety) Bill was passed by the Delhi Assembly in March to ensure that all selected agencies like PWD, Urban Development department, DDA and MCD become a part of the project.
According to the Act, it is compulsory for all the departments to utilise and apply geo-spatial data. A Regulatory Authority has already been set up under chief secretary P K Tripathi by the government to have proper coordination between all the agencies brought under the project.
"We have mapped most part of the city using state-of-art technology of 'ground probing radars'. Now we are going to implement the project," said the official. The departments concerned would be able to use the digital data regarding underground utilities to undertake preventive maintenance programmes. They would also be able to locate the fault in the underground utilities with precision.
All roads, routes of DTC, metro-network, police stations, wards and district boundaries, underground and over-ground utilities have been recorded in the digital data. The official said the project will provide clear vision for urban planning and easy monitoring of ownership of properties, tenancy, land use apart from providing greater preparedness for disaster management.
It took three years for the ground work, wherein high-quality digital images of the assets were recorded using geospatial technology by the IT department of the government, states a PTI report. A senior official said that soon after the portal is launched, Delhi will come in league with the likes of New York, London and Paris, where such kind of three dimensional mapping of underground and overground utilities are available.
It is being expected that this project will cut down red tapism in getting approval for infrastructure projects and 30 agencies rendering services of public utility are being brought under this project for the same. The official said that multiplicity of authorities was a major problem in the city and the portal would help in proper coordination and planning. Various government departments will have access to the common database for design, planning, execution and monitoring of all infrastructure projects.
The Geo-spatial Data Infrastructure (Management, Control, Administration, Security and Safety) Bill was passed by the Delhi Assembly in March to ensure that all selected agencies like PWD, Urban Development department, DDA and MCD become a part of the project.
According to the Act, it is compulsory for all the departments to utilise and apply geo-spatial data. A Regulatory Authority has already been set up under chief secretary P K Tripathi by the government to have proper coordination between all the agencies brought under the project.
"We have mapped most part of the city using state-of-art technology of 'ground probing radars'. Now we are going to implement the project," said the official. The departments concerned would be able to use the digital data regarding underground utilities to undertake preventive maintenance programmes. They would also be able to locate the fault in the underground utilities with precision.
All roads, routes of DTC, metro-network, police stations, wards and district boundaries, underground and over-ground utilities have been recorded in the digital data. The official said the project will provide clear vision for urban planning and easy monitoring of ownership of properties, tenancy, land use apart from providing greater preparedness for disaster management.
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