Vadodara: The Vadodara Municipal Company (VMC) bagged the primary prize within the governance theme on the Sensible Metropolis Awards, 2020 for the profitable implementation of the Geographical Data System (GIS).
VMC was picked up for the award after three rounds of choice. The method included on-line shows in addition to system demonstration. A committee of consultants does the ultimate choice after the method ends.
Mayor Keyur Rokadiya mentioned that the satellite tv for pc photos of town have been used to arrange a digital database of 75 utilities’ layers. The utilities embrace a highway community, drainage and water traces, gasoline traces, city planning schemes, hearth stations, CCTV cameras, colleges, main well being centres, telecommunication towers and several other others.
The GIS allows the gathering of location-based info simply and has been developed as a help system for choice making, Rokadiya mentioned. It has helped in property tax tagging, assessing water demand, planning door-to-door rubbish assortment routes and others. The system was used extensively throughout Covid-19 to mark areas with optimistic circumstances and containment zones. It additionally helped in pinpointing hospitals with vacant beds.