The Hindu 29.03.2013
GPS to monitor solid waste disposal
The East Delhi Municipal Corporation will soon start
using Global Positioning System (GPS) and other devices to monitor and
improve implementation of the solid waste disposal system.
The
proposal of “E-Municipality Solid Waste Disposal Monitoring System” was
passed at a meeting of the Corporation’s Standing Committee on
Thursday.
The system is being put in place in the
wake of complaints that the auto tippers and trucks assigned to take
solid waste and garbage from 64 wards of the East Corporation to
sanitary land fill sites were not working properly.
According to rules, they are supposed to be in the area for eight hours.
To
speed up solid waste disposal in the soon-to-be-made-operational
system, GPS and garbage monitoring devices will be fixed in autos and
trucks to track the numbers of kilometres covered by the waste pick up
vans.
Along with the GPS, the tracking device will also have the facility of clicking pictures.
“There
will also be a machine which will take a picture of the dumping ground
after they clear it. Through the machine that picture of the cleared
ground will be posted on the Corporation website,” said EDMC
Commissioner Sajjan Singh Yadav.
Other proposals
cleared by the Standing Committee include distribution of 2,000 sewing
machines to women from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Below
Poverty Line background and setting up of a playground in Trilokpuri.
The sewing machines will be given after recommendations from the local councillors.
The playground will have facilities for badminton, basketball and lawn tennis courts apart from a football ground.
