Homes to get ‘unique number’ from today:Code to enable drone delivery, emergency services, and e-commerce location tracking

If someone comes to your door with chalk or a marker between May 1st and May 30th, don’t just consider it a government process. That number will give your house a ‘unique location’ on the government map. From Friday, the process of house enumeration will begin in Indore, along with the rest of the country and state. This house enumeration process, preceding the census, will continue until May 30th. Within the Indore Municipal Corporation limits, this work will be carried out by creating 3865 blocks across 85 wards in 22 zones. For this, a map of each enumeration block has been prepared. First, it will be matched. Then, this enumeration will be done digitally through a door-to-door survey. Each enumeration block includes an average of 200 houses/dwellings or a population of 700 to 800. In this way, employees will reach approximately 8 lakh houses within the corporation limits. IMC deploys 4,269 staff for census According to NN Pandey, Additional Commissioner and in charge of the Corporation, there are 30 days for the census. For the IMC area, the Municipal Commissioner is the chief census officer. A total of 4269 employees have been assigned duties. One supervisor has been appointed for every six blocks. The training of the surveyors has been completed at three levels. They have also been given the map of the house listing block. There is no daily target, but if one person surveys 20 houses, the survey will be easily completed in 10 to 15 days. You will be asked 33 questions Related to the House (Questions 1-8) 1. Building number 2. Census house number 3. Predominant material used in the floor 4. Predominant material used in the walls 5. Predominant material used in the roof 6. Use of the census house (e.g., residence, shop, office, etc.) 7. Condition of the house 8. Household number Related to the Household/Family (Questions 9-13) 9. Name of the head of the household 10. Gender of the head 11. Whether the head belongs to Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST), or Other community? 12. Total number of members in the household 13. Number of married couples living in the household Amenities (Questions 14-25) 14. Number of dwelling rooms 15. Main source of drinking water 16. Availability of drinking water source (within premises/near/away) 17. Main source of lighting 18. Availability of toilet 19. Type of toilets 20. Waste water drainage system 21. Availability of bathing facility 22. LPG/PNG connection 23. Main fuel used for cooking 24. Availability of Radio/Transistor 25. Availability of Television Digital Access Assets (Questions 26-33) 26. Availability of internet facility 27. Availability of laptop/computer 28. Telephone/mobile phone/smartphone 29. Ownership of a bicycle 30. Ownership of a scooter/motorcycle/moped 31. Ownership of a car/jeep/van 32. Main cereal consumed by the household 33. Mobile number Main objectives of the housing census Common man to get these benefits 1. Faster emergency services: Ambulances, fire brigades, or the police will not have trouble finding your home address. Through the unique number, they will be able to reach the ‘exact location’ directly, saving time.
2. Drone and e-commerce delivery: In the future, when drone delivery begins, this digital number will act like a digital address for your home. Parcel delivery will be more accurate and faster.
3. Benefits of government schemes: With accurate data, the government will know which areas lack facilities. This will enable the expansion of civic amenities like new water lines, sewerage systems, and gardens in the right places.
4. Ownership and records: This process will organise data related to home ownership or tenancy, bringing transparency to property-related tasks in the future.
5. Streamlined services: Monitoring of services ranging from garbage collection (door-to-door) to other municipal corporation services will be more effective through this unique ID.