Every property in the Secunderabad Cantonment is set to be enumerated. From October 31, special teams consisting of SCB tax bill collectors and outsourcing staff will go door-to-door in the Cantonment and collect details like the name of the property owner, nature of structure (individual/flat in apartments), property tax indication number (PTIN), old and new house number and locality (SCB ward).
“In August this year, the SCB had carried out a survey under the ‘Svamitva’ scheme, covering 18 square kilometres out of 40 sq km of Cantonment’s geographical area, by using high-end high-resolution drones. During the survey done between July 25 and August 24, we traced footprints of 46,000 properties, 420 kilometres length of the road network, another 27 km length of nala/drains network and 16,000 manholes,” SCB assistant cantonment planner, Ch Umashankar, told the media.
On Saturday, Umashankar addressed the media at the SCB main office and explained about the door-to-door exercise to be taken up from October 31, in the Cantonment. “Though we have traced the footprint of every property, we now have to physically verify the total number of flats in an apartment so that we can get an accurate number of properties in the Cantonment,” he said.
This survey is expected to complete within six weeks. SCB has also launched a mobile application to upload the survey data during the survey, the SCB official said.
Subsequently, this updated data will be uploaded to the software and then shared among our key departments like the water wing, health and sanitation and other wings, to make it easy for the official work, he added.
Explaining the benefits, Umashankar said, “the updated data which is collected through this survey, will help boost the revenue sources.”