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Pune's GIS-Based Property Tax Mapping

Since September 2016, Pune Municipal Corporation's Property Tax Department has been geo-tagging properties citywide — recording owner details, photographs and building footprints, and flagging unauthorised construction built after a December 2015 cutoff or extensions not reflected in tax records. By April 2017 it had tagged over 100,000 properties, and other reporting puts the mapped base as high as 8-10 lakh (800,000-1,000,000) properties. In 2026 PMC began integrating this GIS layer with its Enterprise Master Address Management System (eMAMS) to catch missing, misclassified and mismatched records, while a separate MahaPreit drone-survey pilot to find unregistered properties collapsed when the agency's 30%-of-recovered-revenue fee proved financially unworkable.

Live 📅 since 2016

🤖 AI-generated summary of the sources below — how this works · 🔎 Last verified 2026-08-02

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🎓 Lesson

Ten years of geo-tagging can build a real cadastral dataset, but without a published revenue-recovery figure it's a data project, not yet a demonstrated one.

Scale🏙️ City-wide

📖 Terms in this entry: Civic participation platform · Digital identity · Digital twin

Sources

↗ GIS Resources — PMC geo-tagging to identify illegal propertiesApril 2017 report: launch context (Sept 2016), 100,000+ properties tagged by then, what the geo-tagging records, and PMC's own admission it had no compensation/regularisation policy yet.

↗ Convergence Now — PMC GIS + eMAMS integration for property taxApril 2026 currency check: confirms the system is still active and being integrated with eMAMS, but explicitly gives no quantified revenue figure — 'believes' rather than measured.

↗ PUNE PULSE — drone survey exposes unregistered propertiesDocuments the separate 2026 MahaPreit drone-survey pilot and the 30%-of-revenue service-fee dispute that stalled it — used as an honest counterweight, not folded into this entry.

This overview was generated with AI from the public sources listed above and checked against them before publication. It has not had a complete human fact-check — treat it as a starting point and follow the sources.

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🇧🇹 ARMS Digital Land & Property Records · Thimphu Thimphu's ARMS lets residents check land records online; Pune instead sent field teams to geo-tag and photograph every property in person. 🇨🇩 DGRK Digital Tax Collection Platform · Kinshasa Both digitised property-tax collection in stages over roughly a decade — Pune by geo-tagging first, Kinshasa by moving filing online first. 🇮🇳 HYDRAA Lake & Public-Asset GIS Protection · Hyderabad Same GIS boundary-mapping tool, opposite purpose — Pune draws parcels to collect tax, HYDRAA draws them to reclaim public land.

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🗺️ Your City's Problem Map Is Really a Map of Who Complains 🪪 Digital government guide 🏙️ Pune city profile 🏛️ Governance projects

📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Pune's GIS-Based Property Tax Mapping” — Pune, India. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/pune-gis-property-tax/ (last verified 2026-08-02). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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