The Times of India 17.08.2012
Corporation reworks route map for Chennai sweepers
CHENNAI: Chennai corporation zone managers have been asked to sketch a new route map for its conservancy workers.
The map will mark out the exact stretch of road or blocks that a sweeper or a garbage collector is supposed to clean. It means the jobs won't be decided in a haphazard manner but will be more regimental, helping rap the sloppy hands.
It is one of the measures that corporation commissioner D Karthikeyan has implemented to address the complaints from residents across the city on garbage pile-up.
It had been decided earlier that a conservancy worker would be given a particular stretch of 500 metres, where the worker is expected to do sweep or collect garbage from door-to-door on a tricycle. "The working model has already been in place. But since, problems persist, we have asked engineers to rework the ward maps," said corporation commissioner D Karthikeyan.The SMS system to monitor daily garbage collection, a brainchild of former commissioner PWC Davidar, has also been revived.
When the workers are done with their stretch, they will report to the conservancy inspector, who will in turn send a job-done text message when his zone is swept clean. When conservancy job in all the wards in a zone is completed for the day, the assistant commissioner will send a message to the common number.The new system will also make it easier for residents to get their complaints addressed since the workers aren't shuffled often.
The corporation is also studying if they can hire private lorries to cart out garbage from areas that do not have garbage collection points. The lorries could be used to empty garbage from the tricycles in an area. "Workers empty their tricycles in street corners when they did not have collection points. Shortage of trucks was creating delays in clearing the streets regularly," said a corporation official.
Zonal commissioners and engineers have been asked to recruit more workers to tide over staff shortage, which has been one of the reasons for poor conservancy operations in north and central Chennai. "We have decided to recruit 2,000 more people. In the zone, locals will be recruited so that they will not find it tough to report to work," said the official.The civic body has also decided to buy 2,000 new garbage bins and 500 new tricycles for zones across the city.
The map will mark out the exact stretch of road or blocks that a sweeper or a garbage collector is supposed to clean. It means the jobs won't be decided in a haphazard manner but will be more regimental, helping rap the sloppy hands.
It is one of the measures that corporation commissioner D Karthikeyan has implemented to address the complaints from residents across the city on garbage pile-up.
It had been decided earlier that a conservancy worker would be given a particular stretch of 500 metres, where the worker is expected to do sweep or collect garbage from door-to-door on a tricycle. "The working model has already been in place. But since, problems persist, we have asked engineers to rework the ward maps," said corporation commissioner D Karthikeyan.The SMS system to monitor daily garbage collection, a brainchild of former commissioner PWC Davidar, has also been revived.
When the workers are done with their stretch, they will report to the conservancy inspector, who will in turn send a job-done text message when his zone is swept clean. When conservancy job in all the wards in a zone is completed for the day, the assistant commissioner will send a message to the common number.The new system will also make it easier for residents to get their complaints addressed since the workers aren't shuffled often.
The corporation is also studying if they can hire private lorries to cart out garbage from areas that do not have garbage collection points. The lorries could be used to empty garbage from the tricycles in an area. "Workers empty their tricycles in street corners when they did not have collection points. Shortage of trucks was creating delays in clearing the streets regularly," said a corporation official.
Zonal commissioners and engineers have been asked to recruit more workers to tide over staff shortage, which has been one of the reasons for poor conservancy operations in north and central Chennai. "We have decided to recruit 2,000 more people. In the zone, locals will be recruited so that they will not find it tough to report to work," said the official.The civic body has also decided to buy 2,000 new garbage bins and 500 new tricycles for zones across the city.
