Mangalore to have transparent system of waste management

Mangalore to have transparent system of waste management

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, Sep 26, 2012 : Mangalore City Corporation will soon adopt a technology to monitor on-line whether its contractors have cleared solid waste from cement bins and metal containers in the city daily, according to the Commissioner of the corporation Harish Kumar K.

People will be able to see the work of contractors by logging on to a website, he told The Hindu .

This mobile-based technology had been implemented by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation. Mangalore City Corporation would emulate it, he said.

The term of eight contractors assigned the solid waste collection and transportation from 60 wards in the city expired last month. He said that as the Commissioner enjoyed the powers to continue the contract for four more months, the civic body had continued to engage them. It invited fresh bids on September 15 for selecting new eight contractors with October 15 being the last date for submitting bids.

Mr. Kumar said that the technology would be adopted to monitor the work of eight new contractors.

Manjunath R. Shetty, Environment Engineer at the corporation, said there were 600 bins and containers in the city. The contractors would be given away cell phones from the corporation which they should use for taking the photographs of the bins and containers daily. Immediately after clearing a bin the contractor should click its photograph and press an option in the pre-loaded software in the cell phone. The picture would get uploaded in a website (which could be linked to the city corporation’s website) within 10 seconds with the date, time and location of the bin or container.

On the other hand, the website would have a map of the city with the locations (which are called geo reference stations) of bins and containers and black spots (places minus bins and containers where people daily dump solid waste).

A green icon would appear on the location where a bin or the container had been cleared.

If not there would a red icon indicating that it had not been cleared. It would be mandatory for the contractor to upload the photograph of bins and metals which had not been cleared daily. Photographs of such bins would be recorded in red icons.

Mr. Shetty said the corporation would purchase 40 mobiles for distributing for contractors. He said this technology had been adopted by Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) in Jayanagar ward on a pilot basis.

The Commissioner said the door-to-door collection of solid waste would be made mandatory for the new contractors.

 

 Courtesy : Raviprasad Kamila(The Hindu)