Soon you will be able to monitor the performance of the sanitation workers in your area, online. In an initiative to ensure public monitoring of garbage collection in the area, North Delhi Municipal Corporation will introduce a software which will help upload pictures of the municipal waste collection centres (Dhalaos) on real time basis and will be accessible to everybody.
As per the agreement of the corporation with the concessionaire, the latter will provide GPS enabled mobiles to sanitary inspectors and supervisors who will click pictures of these centres once a day and it will be automatically uploaded. on the corporation website and will be through a link for a period of six months. 'We have already started a trial of the system and it will be launched after incorporating suggestions in the software,' said Vijay Prakash Pandey, chairman of the environment management services committee, North DMC. In the system each centre has been given an unique code to avoid any duplication of the pictures.
'The mobiles have been synchronised in such a way that whenever a picture of a garbage centre is taken, it will bear the code of the centre along with date and time to avoid duplication,' added Pandey. Besides, the movement of garbage collection vehicles could also be monitored online.
'The project will be launched in Rohini and the Civil Lines area on pilot project basis where we have a private concessionaire for garbage collection. It would be later replicated in the entire North DMC area,' said Pawan Sharma, additional commissioner of North DMC. 'Initially, sanitary superintendents and some senior officers would be provided the handsets, but later all senior officers, mayor, and councillors will be given such handsets,' he added.
The corporation is also planning to create an 'online complain' link on the website where any citizen can click and upload the picture of unattended garbage in his area and a time-bound system will be introduced for redressal, Sharma added. The concessionaire has been ordered to put appropriate numbers of dustbins and maintain Dhalaos in its area by 10 June.