Bengaluru: In the wake of the recent demolition drives by the local civic body Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), hundreds of homes and buildings were razed to the ground, while thousands of others were marked as encroached properties. Home owners and tenants were rendered homeless overnight and their hard earned investments drained. Now a city based startup ZippServ, has launched a free Google Map-based tool on risk assessment called Zippserv Protect, to help Bengalureans assess encroachment and any other information required while evaluating and buying the properties.
It’s a free tool available on Google Maps, with easy-to-use features to mark rajakaluves and lake encroachments based on BBMP’s revenue map. Users can search and download relevant information with about 50 GB data in just a matter of seconds.
ZippServ team has intensively worked on the tool for six months visiting the civic bodies across and supported by a research team that put together the information covering 800 sq km within the city. The tool can easily highlight primary and secondary drains and help users measure the width of a rajakaluve, amount of encroachment and much more.
ZippServ Co-founder and CEO Sudeep Anandapuram said, “We had developed this originally as an in-house tool as part of our overall risk assessment for our existing customers. But we soon understood that the true potential could be realised only by making it available to all and in helping the larger public identify encroached properties. We are currently in the process of adding more unrecognised layouts, land acquisitions on peripheral ring roads, litigations and other city planning parameters, etc. We also believe that the idea of the tool is in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts in creating more transparency and accountability in the real estate sector.”
The tool can be accessed with the following link mentioned- bit.ly/2f34Qbq
Some highlights of ZippServ Protect are:
- The tool is currently available in Bengaluru and covers over 800 sq km of the city
- Rajakaluves and lake encroachments are based on BBMP’s revenue map
- Unrecognised layouts, land acquisitions on peripheral ring roads, litigations and other city-planning parameters are likely to be available in the future
- The tool is free-for-all and easy-to-use, and loads of required details are accessible in a matter of seconds. This saves potential home owners a lot of time and money
This tool can extensively help the private property buyers to map all the illegal properties across the city.