Mapping of 783 urban bodies, 14,455 wards of U.P. concludes

LUCKNOW : In a significant move, the mapping of all 783 urban bodies of all 75 districts of the Uttar Pradesh and geo-spatial database of their 14,455 wards has been completed jointly by the Directorate of Census Works and the Directorate of Local Bodies. This will aid the basic development of urban areas of the state.

Under instructions of the Registrar General of India, the Directorate of Census Operations decided to prepare the geospatial ward maps of ward boundaries of all urban bodies of the state to create a national geospatial database of the urban structure of the entire state. For this, the Local Government Directorate was contacted and an action plan was decided upon.

After technical evaluation by the Uttar Pradesh government and confirmation of the boundaries from the concerned municipal body, these maps can be finalised and given to various stakeholders for use.

Sheetal Verma, director, Census Works Directorate, handed over the map and Geo Special Database to Nitin Bansal, director, Local Bodies of the state.

This geo-spatial database will prove useful in urban infrastructure development, land administration, banking and financial economic activities, water, disaster management, supply services etc.

The work of preparing geospatial maps of city and ward boundaries of all municipal bodies has been done as per the updated boundaries determined after the delimitation of urban bodies 2021-2022.

New levels of economic development

Verma said that to ease the path of integration of the database related to all aspects of development, the format of the currently available map has been revised at the administrative level. Geospatial databases will prove important in eliminating the main problem of duplication and omission in census survey work in ward limits and urban areas.