With advancements in GPS
technologies in India, few municipal corporations are planning to use GPS tracking to track its garbage
collection vehicles.Each locality has assigned multiple auto tippers to collect
the garbage. But still the corporations keeps getting complains of left over
garbage because currently there is no mechanism to track the efficincy of these
auto tippers.
With GPS units now fitted in the
autos, the councillors can track the garbage vehicles in real time on their
laptops. They can also check the routes taken by the vehicle on any date,
to verify that the neighboorhood was actually visited by the vehicle. Some
corporations are going further and installing cameras as well on the
vehicles. This will help them to check images and video feed online and will
improve accountability.
"We have been working hard to
keep the city clean. There have been many complaints that the tippers are
parked in one place and do not take rounds of colonies. This has given rise to
a serious sanitation crisis. So, we will start tracking vehicle from next week
and ensure that they collect garbage from all areas," Surjan from Delhi
East Municipal Corporation said.
Few corporations are further
planning to use RFID readers in each of their Garbage collection vehicles. Each
house/apartment in the localitywill be provided with unique RFID cards and
collection of garbage from a house / apartment is confirmed by swiping the RFID
card. If such ambitious plans of the corporations goes through, surely we
can expect to see very clean Indian cities in future.
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