PARSA, Sept 5: Birgunj Metropolitan City has started a Metric Addressing System (GIS Based House Numbering) to easily identify the houses of the citizens. As the number of houses is increasing with increasing urbanization, the metropolis has started the metric addressing system with the aim of making it easy to identify the houses. Rajesh Man Singh, mayor of the metropolis, said that this system will help to develop the metropolis as an organized and smart city.
This system has been started with the help of ADB under the RUDP project of the metropolis. Enumerators collect the necessary data and based on that, make a metric address system. Mayor Singh started the metric address system by pasting number plates on the building where Nepal Investment Mega Bank is located in Adarsh Nagar Birgunj Metropolitan City-10.
The road from Adarshnagar Chowk to Thakur Ram Campus has been named Pashupati Ghoshmarg and number plates with number 230 have been affixed. The metric address system is a system in which the address of a house can be found based on the distance (length) of a certain house from the crossroads and intersection of the road. Prakash Amatya, technical advisor to the metropolis, said that number plates will be placed on every house based on the distance, mentioning the house number, locality and road name.
In the first phase, Umesh Kunwar, a GIS expert, said that all the roads have been named after surveying for GIS-based house numbering from wards 1 to 16 and the necessary database has been prepared. He also said that based on the required database, numbering will be done based on the even number system on the right side and odd number system on the left side from the starting point of the road.
Today, 55 houses have been numbered along the Pashupati Ghosh Marg. According to technical advisor Amatya, preparations have been made to number more than 33,000 houses in all 16 wards and the goal of the metropolis is to distribute number plates with a metric system to at least 10,000 houses in the first phase. Sub-engineer Archan Acharya, who is also a GIS technician, said that in this system, the house number will be provided based on the name of the street and the distance, so anyone can easily find the house they are looking for.
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