the national urban information system (NUIS) was started by the ministry
of urban development (MoUD) in 2006. it came out of the tenth five year
plan (2002-07) period deliberations to build a national spatial and
social database to support decision making in urban planning and
development tasks. the plan then was to undertake this scheme in 137
towns/cities.
nuis is divided in two parts: (1) urban spatial information system
(USIS), a repository of GIS maps and satellite imagery for the selected
urban areas (to be developed and dlivered by the national mapping agency
(NMA), survey of india); and (2) national urban databank and indicators,
a repository of social datasets gathered through a network of local
urban observatories (LUO) under the national urban observatory
programme. while NMA has delivered maps of some of the cities, the
network of LUOs are yet to start functioning.
USIS is to consist GIS maps at three scales: (1) 1:10,000 scale maps for
preparing urban-regional development/master plans, (2) 1:2,000 scale
maps for preparing detailed town planning schemes, and (3) 1:1,000 scale
maps (created using ground profiling/penetrating radar) for utility
planning.
the data bureaucratic framework is like this: NMA and local urban
authority produces complimentary parts (in terms of scale and technology
used) of the spatial database; attribute data is compiled by local urban
authority is shared with state level nodal agencies where such data is
merged into GIS database developed by NMA, the state level nodal agency
will then ensure periodical revision of data (coming from both NMA and
local urban authorities) and sharing the same datasets with the national
level nodal agency (MoUD) so as create the national urban information
system.
the objective of the scheme is to significantly raise the quality and
quantity of data government planners can access while creating urban and
regional master plans and other detailed plans. nowhere in the scheme,
however, are the questions of participatory planning, messiness of land
records, arbitrariness of governmental cartography addressed.
the present excitement about NUIS (and hence nate berg's essay), i
think, is due to the fact that the next five year plan period is about
to begin from this year (12th five year plan, 2012-17). all ministries
are now busy attracting and allocating money into their projects. and
NUIS is one of the flagship projects of MoUD.
mikel's suggestion about openstreetmap as a platform for public/private
mapping of the cities and use of the same data in understanding the
juxtaposed claims and hence in resolving them through urban planning is
very exciting. but in the context of NUIS, it is a rather closed and
opaque system where the government utilises various far-from-the-ground
technologies to create 'accurate' and 'authoritative' maps of indian
cities. which then inform planning of indian cities. and all this
happens without a word about the need for participatory mapping. to me
all this sounds rather scary.
i guess NUIS suffers from two assumptions: (1) indian cities cannot be
planned due to lack of good quality data, and (2) master plans cannot be
implemented due to them not being grounded in good quality data.
unfortunately it fails to see urban politics as the realm which
influences development of master plans and their implementation. not
sure how better quality data (at least technically so) sitting with the
MoUD can resolve and neutralise the political negotiations on the ground.
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sumandro
ajantriks.net
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http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/08/master-planning-7935-indian-cities-and-towns/2835/
Anyone heard of this, know anything about it? Any chance the imagery could be
made more widely available?
In my view, remote sensing and GIS in master urban plans is just one
