[smc-discuss] Fwd: About having a mapping party in Koorachundu Village Panchayat - Kozhikode district - Kerala - Reg.
Anivar Aravind
anivar.aravind at gmail.com
Tue Jul 15 21:28:47 PDT 2014
+1
May be SMC can officially partner as well :-)
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Jaisen Nedumpala <jaisuvyas at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Sorry for X post.
>
> The location is here:
>
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/11.5475/75.8735
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jaisen Nedumpala <jaisuvyas at gmail.com>
> Date: 2014-07-07 6:36 GMT+05:30
> Subject: About having a mapping party in Koorachundu Village Panchayat -
> Kozhikode district - Kerala - Reg.
> To: OpenStreetMap in India <talk-in at openstreetmap.org>
>
>
> Hi,
> I am Jaisen Nedumpala, roaming here for quite a while as a contributor
> of OpenStreetMap, mainly focused on the mapping of Kozhikode district.
> Right now, I am working as the assistant secretary to the Koorachundu
> village panchayat, in Kozhikode district.
>
> What I am going to describe here is not purely a community issue, much
> related with my official duties too. But a village panchayat itself is a
> community, which:
>
> 1. enjoy an official status,
> 2. have its own powers and duties,
> 3. full legal recognition and
> 4. authority over a defined local geographical area.
>
> So I think, it might not be wrong to raise this issue here, in the
> hope that, this would be considered as an act of goodwill.
>
> Here we have an immediate requirement to map the village panchayat
> area, that might be helpful for the panchayat elections, which will be held
> in the year 2015. After the elections this map would be the base map for
> all the future practical purposes.
>
> State Election Commission (SEC-Kerala) realises that, systematically
> prepared maps can be used as a base map for administrative, scientific and
> academic purposes as an official document. Such a map would be useful as a
> base document for future delimitation of wards or bifurcation of Local Self
> Government Institutions. So SEC-K has issued an order to prepare maps for
> all Local Self Government Institutions of Kerala, which is available here
> in this link:
>
> http://lsg.kerala.gov.in/news/files/More_Details_352.pdf
> (Language: Malayalam.)
>
> As per the order, the duties are assigned as follows:
>
> 1. Prepare maps for village panchayats, municipalities and municipal
> corporations (Local Self Government Institutions - LSGIs) with their
> external boundaries and mark geographical and man-made features such as
> small and big rivers, streams, roads, forests, raliway line etc. in those
> maps. Then pass down these maps to the LSGIs. The maps for village
> panchayats will be in A3 size (municipality: A2 size, municipal
> corporation: A1 size) and in defined scale, both in hard and soft copies,
> and will be issued to LSGIs within 15/07/2014. --Duty assigned to the
> Department of Survey and Land Records.
>
> 2. After obtaining the map from the Department of Survey and Land Records,
> The engineer in charge of public works at the LSGI, should draw the
> existing ward boundaries (which were fixed in 2010) and notable
> geographical marks, under the supervision of secretary of LSGI, after field
> verification. This job should be done within 29/07/2014 (within 9 working
> days after receiving the maps from Survey and Land Records) in case of
> village panchayats. --Duty assigned to the secretary and Engineer of LSGI.
>
> 3. After obtaining back the map with ward boundaries and notable
> geographical marks from LSGIs, the Department of Survey and Land Records
> will prepare the final maps of LSGI within 12/9/2014 using AutoCAD software
> program. --Duty assigned to the Department of Survey and Land Records.
>
> Main Points to note:
> ----------------------------
>
> 1. LSGIs should have a systematically prepared base map for
> administrative, scientific and academic purposes as an official document.
> Such a map will be useful as a base document for future delimitation of
> wards or bifurcation LSGIs.
>
> 2. To become authentic, it must be prepared by the Department of Survey
> and Land Records, after receiving the official inputs from the LSGI
> authorities.
>
> 3. The maps for village panchayats will be in A3 size (municipality: A2
> size, municipal corporation: A1 size) and will be in defined scale.
>
> 4. Department of Survey and Land Records will prepare the final map after
> obtaining the inputs from LSGIs, using AutoCAD software program.
>
> Problems I could see:
> ------------------------------
>
> 1. KILA and SEC-K jointly published a hand book covering LSGI elections
> and related subjects, originally titled in Malayalam, which can be
> translated as "Good governance through legal awareness - Hand book for
> People's Representatives and officials at LSGIs" in 2013. In its pages no:
> 12 and 13, it is said that ward delimitation should be done using the
> cadastral map prepared and issued by the Information Kerala Mission, and if
> they didn't prepare such a map for a particular village panchayat, then
> that should be prepared with the help of Survey Department.
>
> In case of Koorachundu village panchayat, Information Kerala Mission
> didn't prepare a cadastral map, so we approached the Department of Survey
> and Land Records regional and district authorities long before, but any
> action is still pending.
>
> In the hand book, it says about preparing a cadastral map, but in the
> order of SEC-K mentioned above, the word "cadastral" is not there. No clue,
> what type of map would be issued to village panchayat, by the Department of
> Survey and Land records for this purpose.
>
> 2. If the map is meant to be useful for administrative, scientific and
> academic purposes, and be useful as a base document for future delimitation
> of wards or bifurcation LSGIs, I think, it must be a cadastral map. So I am
> doubtful whether the size A3 mentioned in the order of SEC-K is sufficient
> for this purpose. That is too small to include the necessary features in
> detailed scale, that to make it useful for any other practical purpose
> other than ward delimitation. Besides, the village panchayats of Kerala
> vary largely in their geographical area, the largest among them is Kumily
> in Idukki District, with a huge 816.73 Sq. K Ms size, and the smallest is
> Valapattanam in Kannur District with only 2.04 Sq. K Ms, and all the others
> lie somewhere in the range in between. How it is practically possible to
> make the maps of all these village panchayats in A3 size and at the same
> time in a defined scale? No idea. And it seems to be hard to draw all the
> ward boundaries and geographical features within this fixed time-limit, in
> a detailed and accurate manner for this relatively large village panchayat
> (Area: 72.74 Sq. K Ms).
>
> Cadastral map is a must, as we already suffered difficulties earlier
> when:
>
> 1. Using the watershed master plan, which was prepared without using a
> cadastral map, for the programmes under Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
> Employment Guarantee Act in village panchayat,
>
> 2. Asked for the panchayat level cadastral map to prepare detailed
> watershed based masterplan for Integrated Watershed Management Programme,
> but we couldn't provide it.
>
> Let it be.
>
> We couldn't prepare a panchayat level resource map for Koorachundu
> village panchayat, because we don't have a base cadastral map yet. So I
> think, it is high time to prepare one somehow, atleast in three themes viz.
> Assets, Land use, and Water resources so that it can be made useful for all
> practical purposes which may arise in the future.
>
> Continuous updation make a map an authentic source of information and
> possibilities of customisation make it reliable over time. Hard copy maps
> or raster images of maps have limited flexibility to update or customise.
> GIS or WebGIS is the best solution for this purpose. But, All the Local
> Self government Institutions (including village panchayats) of Kerala are
> restricted from preparing projects to develop a GIS or spend money for it,
> vide government circular available in the following link:
>
>
> http://www.go.lsgkerala.gov.in/pages/fileOpen.php?fname=cr20131213_9208.pdf&id=9208
> (Language: Malayalam.)
>
> Considering all these factors, I can see more of less a deadlock
> condition here. Not expecting any relaxation in any of these
> orders/circulars within this fixed time limit. So I think about not a
> direct, but an alternative way to get mapped this area. OpenStreetMap would
> be the best solution at this point, I think. If all the necessary features
> here, are marked in OpenStreetMap, the geospatial data can be made
> available for any practical purposes including administrative, scientific
> and academic purposes at any time, using ETL techniques. Because I see many
> of the foreign academic/government firms make use of geospatial data from
> OpenStreetMap these days.
>
> Can anybody help us to map this area within 29/07/2014, if we arrange
> a mapping party here?
>
> Priorities to map are:
>
> 1. The geographical boundaries of Koorachundu village panchayat.
> 2. Existing ward boundaries (which was fixed in 2010).
> 2. Rivers and Streams.
> 3. Roads.
> (No need to map railway line, because it doesn't exist here.)
> 4. Forest area.
> 5. Buildings which can be used as potential polling booths.
> 6. All the ways/foot paths to those buildings.
> 7. Assets, Landuse and Water resources if possible within this time-limit.
>
> Will this plan be accepted by the OpenStreetMap India community as a
> model?
>
> If it is possible, then it will have a few advantages mainly:
>
> 1. It would be a learning experience for OpenStreetMap volunteers about
> this village community.
> 2. Hopefully can arrange the help of Kudumbashree volunteers to map this
> area, and that would be a learning experience for them too on OpenStreetMap.
> 3. The OpenStreetMap volunteers will get an opportunity to explore the
> Koorachundu village panchayat, within which have some scenic places,
> reservoirs and streams.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Koorachundu Village Panchayat profile
> ------------------------------------------------------
> 1. It is a hilly village panchayat, bordering with Wayanad district.
> 2. The headquartes - Koorachundu is 38 Kilometers away from
> Kozhikode(Calicut).
> 2. Well connected with all-weather roads (few nooks and corners are not,
> still), but public transportation facilities are limited.
> 3. Population: 16111 (2001)
> 4. Area: 72.74 Square Kilometers
> 5. number of wards: 13.
> 6. Two major reservoirs (Peruvannamuzhi, and Kakkayam) and one dam
> (Kakkayam) are there in panchayat.
> 7. The Kakkayam valley tourism project is in incubator. Besides Kakkayam,
> there are some other scenic places in panchayat, being a hilly area.
> 8. Broadband internet connection will be available at the O/o village
> panchayat.
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> Please do comment on this idea..
>
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