Waste Collection Vehicles To Be Fitted With GPS Devices In Delhi On Pilot Basis

The project will be launched on a pilot basis in the west zone and Dwarka where cleaning and waste collection starts at 5 am, PTI quotes Raj Niwas officials.

Delhi to install GPS devices in waste collection vehicles and monitor them on a pilot basis.

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A National Green Tribunal-appointed high-level committee has ordered a pilot project to be launched in Delhi to install GPS devices in waste collection vehicles and monitor them in Delhi’s west zone and Dwarka areas. The first meeting of the committee for monitoring the management and disposal of municipal solid waste, headed by Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena, was held on April 25. During this meeting, the committee decided to launch the project on a pilot basis in the west zone and Dwarka where cleaning and waste collection starts at 5 am, PTI quotes Raj Niwas officials.

They further decided to increase the number of waste collection vehicles and install GPS devices in all of them for better monitoring.

The committee also directed officials to submit a report with photographs every day, the officials further told PTI.

During the meeting, it was informed that with LG Saxena's interventions biomining and disposal of legacy waste, which was being carried out by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) at an average rate of 1.4 lakh metric tonnes (MT) per month between October 2019 and May 2022, had picked up pace substantially, During the period from June to December 2022, it had reached an average of 6 lakh MT per month, the officials said.

Subsequently, interventions like integrated tenders for biomining, transportation and disposal have led to a current average of about 7.5 lakh MT of waste being disposed of every month, with a daily average of about 25,000 MT at the three legacy waste sites at Bhalswa, Ghazipur and Okhla.

On the LG’s instructions these were scaled up to the full capacity of 30,000 MT per day.

During the meeting it was also decided to implement a revised ward-wise action plan and the MCD was asked to submit the name of the concerned officer within 10 days in order to achieve 100 percent waste segregation.

The committee has further directed the additional divisional railway manager to immediately resolve the issue of solid waste lifting alongside railway tracks with the MCD.