PUNE: The Pune municipal corporation (PMC) has installed global positioning system (GPS) devices on a trial basis for three ghanta gadis (garbage collection vans).
PMC officials said this during a meeting of the PMC sanitation staff and members of the National Society for Clean Cities (NSCC).
The officials said that once the trial system is successful, GPS will be installed in all 120 ghanta gadis available in the city.
A separate 12 x 15 sq ft control room is also likely to be set up with control monitors to keep track of the ghanta gadis. It will be a tamper-proof system and if the GPS wires are disconnected, an alarm will go off.
NSCC said that the ghanta gadi system has proved to be very efficient for the housing societies but there is a problem in collection of garbage from the slums.
A PMC official said the issue of segregation of garbage across the city was also raised with Suresh Jagtap, head of PMC’s Solid Waste Management Department who said that many people across the city are still not segregating their garbage.
The members of the Wanowrie residents’ forum (WRF) suggested an idea to put an end to the segregation problem.
“Some members of WRF accompanied the ghanta gadis to various hous-ing societies for a few days. Wherever we saw that the garbage segregation is not up to the mark, we asked the supervisor to refuse collecting garbage from there. In a few days, there was a noticeable difference in the segregation practices. This system can be employed by supervisors across the city,” the members added.
Source : Timesofindia
