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BMC-owned vehicles to be tracked from first week of September

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From the first week of September, the BMC will start monitoring its vehicles across all departments through a software developed by the IT department as a part of the Vehicle Tracking System (VTS). Currently, there are about 2,000 BMC-owned vehicles, of which, the highest number of vehicles belongs to the solid waste management department, followed by the storm water drain
department and others.

The project that will be implemented for a period of five years, will cost the civic body anywhere between Rs18 crore to Rs20 crore.

"Four GPS devices will be linked to the municipal vehicles, which will monitor the movement of the vehicles. It will allow us to monitor the movement along a particular route, time taken to reach different points and the duration of each stop for collection, and also if they are collecting garbage from the specific litter bins mapped in the system," said SVR Srinivas, additional municipal commissioner.

Civic officials further informed that sensors attached to the vehicles will be connected to the GPS. "This will help us to monitor if the vehicles are actually using their full capacity in terms of lifting things they are supposed to by measuring the weight lifted," he said.

The system has been developed keeping in mind erring contractors, who did not carry silt or garbage in their vehicles to the fullest capacity.

A pilot project on this was initiated in 2012, mostly after growing complaints from citizens that the garbage was not collected from various parts of the city. In a trial phase, the GPS vehicle-tracking system was launched in the F-South and P-North wards.

"The software will help senior officials of every individual department to track their vehicles and check if they are working in accordance with the specified directions. This will ensure transparency and might also reduce the transportation cost," Srinivas said.

"In the future, the software might enable citizens to upload pictures of geo-tagged dustbins from where garbage has not been collected," he added.

 

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