The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started allotting geo-tagged smart addresses to denizens of the city. The Digital Door Numbering system would make the city more accessible.
The GIS-based technology shall ensure unique alphanumeric numbers for all buildings that would allow the BMC to determine the exact locations of residential and commercial buildings. This would also facilitate door-to-door garbage collection as well as be helpful for postal departments and utility departments. The initiative has been launched on a pilot basis in Ward nos. 6, 23 and 30 of the city.
Survey teams are visiting houses in the city’s non-slum areas for identifying the properties through geo-tagging and entering the addresses of houses in the system for its uploading and creation of smart addresses.
Digital Door Numbering is a smart address system where geospatial technology is used to create address of a particular household or property. Detail address like ward, street, exact location, nearby landmark, coding of the house would be done in the survey.
While the pilot survey is being carried out between February 1 and 12, the remaining areas would be covered from February 13 to March 31. Street signage would be installed during April.
A budget amount of Rs 3.76 crore has been earmarked for the activity.