Thursday, 12 August 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
The Municipal Corporation of Dehradun (MCD) has postponed the Geographic Information System (GIS) based survey due to the rains in the city. Earlier, the corporation had planned to commence the GIS based survey in Kaulagarh ward as a pilot project under the Urban Development Directorate (UDD) from this month through drones to get the complete details of all residential and commercial properties. At present, all the property taxpayers submit the property tax on the basis of the self-assessment of their properties most of which are not verified by the corporation.
According to the officials, this survey will help the corporation to maximise the property tax as all the actual details of each establishment in the city along with their owners’ information will be available at one click after this survey. The collected data through the survey will also be used to generate a unique property identification number which can be used by the government to provide required facilities to the locals of a certain area. However, the GIS based survey has been delayed by one month in Dehradun due to rains in the city. Ashish Kataith who is managing this project in Dehradun informed the corporation had planned to commence the survey from August using drones and door to door survey but it has been postponed due to frequent rainfall in the city. “We have not started the process considering the ongoing rainfall here because once we start the process of the survey through drones and door to door survey, we want it to be regular and consistent for our pilot project. The MCD will start the survey by the end of this month or at the beginning of September,” said Kathait.
It is pertinent to mention here that UDD has planned to commence GIS based survey in the urban local bodies of Dehradun, Haridwar, Rudrapur and Rishikesh as the pilot project in the State after which, the plan will be executed in other ULBs too.
