Government Plans to Map Addresses to Provide Aadhaar-like Numbers For Locations

New Delhi, Nov 16: The Union government is planning to map residential and professional addresses of individuals digitally. The department of posts has ordered a pilot project under which people will be given  a six-digit number for every property at three postal pin code locations.

The government wants to use these e-locations to link them with information like property title and ownership, property tax records, information on utilities like electricity, water and gas, reported TOI.

The project has been approved for two postal pins in Delhi and one in Noida. If successful, the system might be used in larger administrative area. The digital address identity could be used as existing postal address.