Pune's GIS-Based Property Tax Mapping

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Pune has been geo-tagging every property since 2016 to catch tax dodgers, but a decade on PMC still can't say how much extra revenue it recovered — and a 2026 drone-survey add-on collapsed over a 30% finder's fee.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence📰 Mediagrades the sourcing — this entry states no impact figure

what does this mean?

The strongest source is press reporting; no primary evaluation was located. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byPune Municipal Corporation, Property Tax Department

Scale🏙️ City-wide

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,167 documented projects · 🏙️ 7 more in Pune · 🗺️ GIS & cadastre guide · 🏛️ Governance projects

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

🎓 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.

🏛️ Governance GIS & cadastre Digital government

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.

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Compare this project

🇧🇹 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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📎 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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