Vellakovil City Development Plan - Municipal

City Development Plan for Vellakoil Municipality SMEC India Pvt Ltd
Final Report TNUDP III
5.2.7 E-GOVERNANCE
i. Existing Status
E-governance is aimed to provide on-line citizen services, information to all hierarchies and
monitor the performances. It is in practice that citizens are approaching the respective urban
local bodies to pay their revenues, get certificates, approvals for construction of Building etc. By
adopting E-governance, the above activities are simplified and made possible at their Information
and Facilitation counter in the Municipality. By E-governance, the services of Vellakoil
Municipality will be made easy, transparent, accountable and quick. The citizens may be
informed about their dues and thus the revenue generation will be faster and easier. The
modules online in this town are 6 and the rest of the modules will be made online shortly.
Modules online – 6 (Property tax, Water tax, Professional tax, Salary, FAS, Birth and death)
ii) Proposals
It is proposed to provide 4 Seva centers at Booster house Moolanoor road, Natesan nagar,
Erode road (near bus stand) and at municipal office. The total cost required is Rs.16.00 lakhs.
5.2.8 URBAN GREENARY
The main roads, residential avenues need to be provided with trees. It is proposed to provide
2000 number of saplings/treelings planted along main roads. Private participation and
involvement of SHGs and NGOs can make this task a success. The total investment required is
Rs.10.00 lakhs. The annual Operation and maintenance cost is Rs.10000.
5.3 OTHER PROJECTS
The municipality has a community hall at Salavaiyalar colony and a shopping complex at
Theerthampalayam with 4 shops.
Construction of commercial building with an area of 5000 sq.ft at Erode road near the bus stand
is proposed by the municipality. The demand for the commercial building may be assessed by
the municipality. The cost required to implement the project is Rs.100.00 lakhs.
5.3.1 UPDATION OF DATABASE ON GIS PLATFORM
There is no realistic database for the town, in the form of topography, updated base map,
assessment of properties in their location, size, use and intensity, assets -lands and structures in
their location, status, extent, and quality, topography, land parcels by town survey, numbers and
sub divisions and so on. All these can be updated with cent percent precision using high
resolution satellite imageries supplemented by cent percent primary survey or aerial
photographs. All these with spatial and non-spatial data can be had on a GIS format which, on a
click at any feature or site on the town map will provide the entire details including the description
of the feature / address of the owner including tax paid etc. This is a onetime comprehensive
exercise to include the updated town map with town survey, land parcels, structures, service
network, assets with the relevant details and description on a GIS format.
In this ultra modern age, with high-tech interventions, this is considered a must for easy, efficient
and flawless governance, administration and functional operation from local body level to the
government level.
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