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Group of Ministers recommends alphanumeric codes for streets, localities: Report

A Working Group of Ministers on employment generation and skill development has said in its report that streets be numbered using an alphanumeric format, the Print reported on Wednesday. Under such a system, each village and locality would be allotted a unique code.  The report points to archaic street identification systems even with explosions of growth in rural and urban areas, and highlights the resultant hurdles in delivery of public services, such as police, ambulance, addressing breakdowns in water, electricity supply, and tax collection without “a system of street coordinates”. “Street addressing and Door numbering is a key and basic infrastructure which has been overlooked,” the report said, according to the Print.  The system proposed is reportedly called One Nation, One Address, and according to the Print, is akin to Aadhaar, though it’s unclear how. In an example pointed out by the publication — in a code like ABC-110-220, ABC would be the area or village code, 110 would be the street number, and then the house number (220).  The Working Group of Ministers, headed by Minister of Social Justice and Empowerment Chand Gehlot, made the recommendations in a report submitted to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October. The GoM’s report points to some of the features that such as system could have:  Establishing street, road, building relations APIs (Application Programming Interface) Support for emergency services Enabling record keeping for departments such as Property Tax, Census, Emergency services, utilities, etc. Ability to interact with map providers to ensure adoption The idea…

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