The Hindu 10.07.2013
Mobile phone app for toilet maintenance
The Coimbatore Corporation has armed its sanitary
supervisors with a smart phone each to ensure that the 275 public
convenience facilities in the city are hygienic.
Handing
over the smart phone at the Corporation main office on Tuesday, the
Mayor, S.M. Velusamy, said that the Corporation had uploaded a
specially-designed app (software application), which the sanitary
supervisors should use to enter data about the public convenience
facility.
The supervisors should check availability
of water, hygiene, power supply, bin and user friendly environment and
enter details as sought by the app.
They should do so after inspecting the toilets at least once and if possible twice a day.
The
data would reach the Corporation server and from there would go to
officials concerned, including zonal assistant commissioners, for
immediate action.
Mr. Velusamy said that the
Corporation had designed the app in such a way that it would not accept
the supervisors’ entry if they did not inspect the toilets.
Commissioner
G. Latha said the civic body had asked each sanitary supervisor to
inspect at least five toilets in his or her area.
The Corporation had outsourced the maintenance of the toilets.
To
collate the details the sanitary supervisors send through the mobile
phone, the Corporation had established a separate wing at its computer
section.
The objective was to provide clean, user-friendly toilets to the city’s residents and visitors.
Deputy Commissioner S. Sivarasu and other officials were present at the function.
Innovative method Smartphones will use a specially-designed software application Sanitary supervisors will enter data about public convenience facility They will enter details after checking water and power supply.