The tracking would be done using tools like Global Positioning System (GPS), online data transfer, web and mobile interfaces, to bring an order to city’s garbage.

The GHMC has been monitoring garbage lifting through cell phone in Abids and Khairatabad on an experimental basis and they think the results are encouraging. Officials found photos obtained real-time, whenever garbage bins are being lifted helped in smooth operation of the process. GHMC officials told Express there are about 4,000 dumper bins in the city. At present, the lifting of these bins was being monitored through information given by sanitary supervisors of the concerned areas. Similarly, daily attendance of about 16,000 public health workers is done manually at about 200 locations.

Presently, the manual process is consuming a lot of time and the wireless network is getting choked, hindering regular sanitary review and monitoring.

Therefore, the GHMC is planning to automate the monitoring of dumper bins lifting and attendance of workers using software based GPS technology on mobile phones. The images of dumper bins and workers who attend duty would be captured with date, time, latitude and longitude stamp. Once all the details are gathered, they would put up on GHMC website for public access.

The design, development, deployment, training, and resource costs for the solution is estimated to be Rs 48 lakh per year. The standing committee has given approval for implementation of the project in GHMC limits.