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Announcing the impending launch of the project, deputy chief minister CN Ashwath Narayan on Wednesday said the transparent system is the first of its kind in the country.

BENGALURU: The BBMP’s ambitious Geographical Information System-based road history project will roll out in January 2020. The project is expected to provide every road in the city a unique identity number, the various works it has undergone, the contractors involved, maintenance schedules and expenditure incurred, among other things, ensuring transparency and eliminating duplication.

Announcing the impending launch of the project, deputy chief minister CN Ashwath Narayan on Wednesday said the transparent system is the first of its kind in the country.

Speaking at the Urban Thought Leaders Conclave organised to commemorate ‘Good Governance Day’ to mark late Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s birth anniversary, Narayan said, “We need a unified system for grievance redressal. Integration of all civic bodies on one platform will make it convenient for citizens and authorities.”

The project will provide a unique number to each road and help bring about transparency. The unique number will have records like road work type and extent, cost estimates, post-work maintenance, contractor details, condition of the road and the day work started and finished. “It will have a record of 33,000 km of roads and will be way better and transparent than RTI,” Narayan claimed.

Quite an useful system to ensure transparency, hope the system and the procedures implemented are robust enough to avoid loophole-exploiters.

Source and full article at: ET Auto