Government Plans to Map Addresses to Provide Aadhaar-like Numbers For Locations

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The project has been approved for two postal pins in Delhi and one in Noida. If successful, the system might be used in larger administrative area. The digital address identity could be used as existing postal address.
New Delhi, Nov 16: The Union government is planning to map residential and professional addresses of individuals digitally. The department of posts has ordered a pilot project under which people will be given  a six-digit number for every property at three postal pin code locations.
The government wants to use these e-locations to link them with information like property title and ownership, property tax records, information on utilities like electricity, water and gas, reported TOI.
The project has been approved for two postal pins in Delhi and one in Noida. If successful, the system might be used in larger administrative area. The digital address identity could be used as existing postal address. (Also read: How to apply for new Aadhaar Card and update Aadhaar details)
MAPmyIndia will be running the pilot project for the postal department.
“The results of the proof of concept may be utilised by the department towards developing a digital address format that would suit the purpose for a national-level project rollout,” says a letter signed by additional director-general (mail operations) Abhishek Kumar Singh.
eLoc will help locate complex addresses. MAPmyIndia MD Rakesh Verma told TOI that the system will save time, money, fuel and money.
“eLoc will help travellers and commuters search, share and navigate to a destination’s exact doorstep far more easily and quickly. It will also reduce time, money, fuel wastage and expenses for businesses in the e-commerce, transportation, logistics and field operations domains,” said Verma.
MAPmyIndia said that it had digital address database that has local addresses of 2 crore individuals, businesses and government set-ups. The postal department will help the company in this project.

Sources:India.com

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