Goa's Urban Development Minister has greenlit a Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping initiative for urban residences in South Goa, with North Goa's mapping already underway. The GIS project aims to address revenue losses and plug leaks in municipal areas. GIS combines location data with descriptive information, aiding property tax assessment, recovery, and data availability. Other Indian entities, like Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority and BMC Mumbai, have utilized GIS for water body identification, flood-prone area detection, and property tax collection enhancement. A recent Uttar Pradesh example led to a doubled property tax base and an additional 500 crore revenue.
The Urban Development Minister of Goa recently announced that permission has been granted for the commencement of a comprehensive Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping initiative for urban residences in South Goa. He also confirmed that the GIS mapping exercise for North Goa is already in progress. The primary objective behind the GIS mapping endeavour is to address and rectify potential revenue losses within municipal areas, as well as to identify and eliminate leakages within the system.
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system that creates, manages, analyses, and maps all types of data. GIS connects data to a map, integrating location data (where things are) with all types of descriptive information (what things are like there). This provides a foundation for mapping and analysis that is used in almost every industry.
GIS Mapping helps in streamlining the property tax assessment and recovery mechanism, besides making data and details of every single property located within the Municipal Corporation limits readily available. It assists civic bodies in correctly identifying a property as well as catch perpetrators who file their property taxes in the wrong category.
Various government authorities in India are using GIS technology. For instance, Gurugram Metropolitan Development Authority uses GIS to identify lost water bodies, locate flood-prone areas, in addition to boosting property-tax collection. The BMC in Mumbai uses it to track the evolution of buildings and geographic regions over time. Recently, GIS Mapping in 14 cities of Uttar Pradesh (UP) doubled the establishments liable to pay property tax from 271.6 lakh to 45.88 lakh resulting in additional 500 crores revenue for the urban development authority.
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