Pune development plan to go digital in six months

Nearly 250 maps will be taken up of which 23 are of municipal corporations while the rest are of municipal councils. The deadline for digitisation of all the maps is June 2010. The UDD plans to digitise the maps and put it on the world wide web. They also want to keep it open for amendments or adaptations as well ensure print outs through a plotter machine.

These maps will clearly give the idea of different zones,reservation and amenities in the public domain. “It was not available earlier for the public. To get a copy of the map,several trips had to be made to the civic body. This will ensure that anybody can get their city’s DP at a click of the mouse,” said Benjamin.

Another senior officer from the UDD added that at present both the corporation and the municipal councils have maps in two to three sheets. “This will ensure standardisation of maps and specific colours will given to various reserved zones,” he said. Yellow will represent residential zone,green is for green zone and light red will denote public/ semi-public zones. There will be several other such colour codes that would be uniformly followed for all the maps in the state. This move would make it easier for citizens to know about plots open for development and those earmarked for construction,he said.

Vijay Kumbhar,an RTI activist,said if the government is able to clear the proposal it would definitely ensure transparency.