The Rs 120 crore Delhi State Spatial Data Infrastructure Project (DSSDI) was inaugurated at the Delhi Pavilion in the India International Trade Fair today by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.
"The underground utilities comprising water, sewer, telephones, power lines etc have been mapped for the first time using state-of –the- art technology. The availability of underground utilities in digital form would enable the concerned line departments to undertake preventive maintenance programmes as well as locate the fault in the underground utility with precision," Ms Dikshit said.
Developed countries have been using geo-spatial technology for long for enhancing transparency in the functioning of government departments.
According to sources, the common data base will be made available to various government departments for design, planning, execution and monitoring of all infrastructure projects.
This would help improve efficiency and productivity of all city services by reducing conflict of interest and cost of duplication of work, they said.
Ms Dikshit said the DSSDI project was a key component of the preparations for the Commonwealth Games and would be the forerunner and model for city level e-governance for the rest of India.
Delhi Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta said underground utilities in the capital had been mapped afresh using state-of-the-art technology of Ground Probing Radars. He said the decades-old cadastral maps had been digitised, geo-referenced and a Land Information System had been operationalised.
Mr Savitur Prasad, Secretary, Information Technology, said that for the first time in India an entire city had been mapped on a large scale (1:2000) using aerial photography to produce an accurate base map, capture and overlay all overground and underground utilities, create a 3-D city model and undertake property survey of all dwelling units.
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Quelle/Source: NetIndian, 26.11.2009
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