Improving Urban Liveability using Geospatial Technologies

The Smart Cities Mission aimed at driving financial development and improving citizen satisfaction through exhaustive work on the friendly, monetary, physical, and institutional strengths of the city. The attention was on manageable and comprehensive advancement by the formation of replicable models.

The vision was to encourage urban communities that give better infrastructure, clean surroundings, and economical livelihood and provide satisfaction to their residents through 'smart solutions’.

Stakeholders involved Smart Cities Mission authorities, municipal corporations, urban local bodies, urban planners, department officials, project management consultants, master system integrators, and citizens.

Solution and Implementation Plan

GIS-based planning helped the department to plan utilities strategically so that the maximum number of citizens can be served at optimal cost. The property tagging feature helped departments identify unassessed properties, resulting in a property tax collection increase. GIS also helped the department to improve traffic movement for less congestion in peak hours.

Objective

1. To increase the liveability index of the city by using geospatial & remote sensing technologies with visualization techniques.

2. To improve citizen services including the adequacy of water supply, proper sanitation, and solid waste management, assured supply of electricity, efficient urban mobility, public transport, affordable housing, robust information technology connectivity, transparent and good governance, safety, and security of citizens, modernized health and education infrastructure.

Citizen services have become a lot easier with GIS information as it helped the department to exactly know about the citizens’ location and their requirements and it led to quick resolution of required services.

GIS-based multi-criteria decision-making support has led many departments in spatially selecting sites for city utility planning and asset management. Disclaimer: These case the

3. To establish better governance and improved life quality of the citizens as well as an improved financial flow for the administrative department.