BMC to install chips to monitor if garbage trucks doing their job
RFID system will help it deal with complaints of garbage bins not being cleared ……GEETA DESAI
Facing complaints from citizens that garbage bins outside their buildings are not fully cleared on time, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to use Radio Frequency Identification Chip (RFID) on their vehicles to continuously monitor them from next month.
Presently the garbage vehicles are equipped with GPRS system which helps in tracking the vehicles going on a particular route but it does not help in checking whether the vehicles have cleared garbage bin from a particular location outside a housing society.
The RFID which will be fixed on the vehicle will help in reading the specially coded tag fixed on the garbage bins and the information will be relayed to the control room, a practice is usually followed by most of the developed countries.
The total cost of the project is Rs 20 crore. The chips will be installed in 839 private vehicles and 321 BMC vehicles. The vehicle will be monitored by the control room.
“The RDIF will recognise the name of the housing society and the detailed address of that area, which will be displayed on the monitor of the control room. In this way, trucks will be monitored easily, thus giving the citizens a cleaner locality to live in,” said R A Rajeev, additional municipal commissioner.
“We will come to know whether a vehicle is lifting the garbage and the weight it has lifted. This way there will be no pilferage,” said A Karim, chief engineer (solid waste management department).
“Generally what happens is that private vehicles make money out of the number of rounds they make. At times we get complains that vehicles are not filled upto the capacity. But with this chip we will be able to track every little detail.”
“We will also be able to change the route of the vehicle if they are not filled to the capacity and the garbage is yet to be lifted from a particular area,” said Karim.