The Hindu 18.09.2013
Mobile phones to help civic body collect waste efficiently
The Coimbatore Corporation on Tuesday launched a waste collection system based on the use of mobile phones to ensure efficacy.
Under
the new system, the Corporation has numbered each of the 3,400-odd bins
in the city and also provided the mobile phone number of the sanitary
supervisor of the ward concerned and the mobile phone number for
grievance redressal.
The time and frequency of cleaning will also be mentioned on the bin.
The
Corporation had also developed an android-based mobile application to
ensure efficacy in removing and transporting the garbage.
The
civic body provided the application-installed android mobile phones to
sanitary supervisors, who will have to go to the bin at the scheduled
time and day to ensure that it has been cleaned.
They
will have to use the application to say at what time the bin was
cleaned and who the driver was. They will also have to state what the
approximate weight was.
The sanitary supervisors’ reports will be cross-checked by officials.
The vehicles engaged in transporting garbage have already been fitted with vehicle tracking systems.
Mayor
S.M. Velusamy launched the system in the presence of Corporation
Commissioner G. Latha and other officials of the local body.