The city's civic body took this decision after it received complaints that the vans were not punctual in collecting garbage from their respective areas.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) plans to instal a global positioning system (GPS) and fit its garbage collection vans with GPS receivers so that the vans can be tracked while on duty.
The civic body took this decision after it received complaints from residents that the vans were not punctual in collecting garbage from their respective areas.
AMC officials were initially surprised to receive such complaints as they were under the impression that the vans had been visiting the places to which they were assigned. Apparently, the vans were not where they were supposed to be when they were out ostensibly collecting garbage.
As the civic body was unable to keep track of the vans when they were out collecting garbage, it decided to fit the vehicles with GPS receivers. The entire system for all the vehicles will cost Rs 2.5 crore and the contract for the systems with code solutions will be for three years.
The GPS system will help the AMC monitor the movement of the garbage-lifting vehicles and ensure that they visit the areas assigned to them regularly. Municipal commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra said that it will ensure greater transparency.
“It will let us know which vehicle had picked up garbage from which area and which had not. Also, the system would make it possible to know the current position of each van and to gather information about which routes each had covered while collecting garbage,” Mohapatra said.
Currently, AMC has 700-odd vehicles for collecting garbage from different residential and commercial localities of the city. Garbage is collected daily as per the door-to-dump system adopted by the civic body in 2009 and its daily collection comes to around 3,500 tonnes of waste.
“But the system had loopholes because of which citizens had started complaining that garbage was not being picked from their area. Hence we wanted to introduce something that could ensure that waste was collected regularly,” an AMC official said on condition of anonymity.
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