MCB plans to keep tab on cleanliness through app

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, February 19

The Local Bodies Department is planning to keep a tab on the cleanliness of the city through mobile application, which the department is set to start soon in the coming days. The mobile app is ready and it is expected this app would be launched in this week by Local Bodies Minister Navjot Singh Sidhu.

Municipal corporation commissioners and the EO of municipal councils will have to go in field and check the cleanliness level and later have to send all details to the head office through this mobile application.

This has been confirmed by Punjab Municipal Infrastructure Development Company (PMIDC) CEO Ajoy Sharma. He says mobile app is ready and will be launched soon. After which all the senior officials of the department would be able to keep a tab on cleanliness through this mobile app across the state and if negligence is shown by officials concerned action would be initiated against them.

Under the plan prepared by the Local Bodies Department corporation commissioners and municipal councils EO will have to visit in field daily and they themselves have to check the cleanliness levels of one area in the city every day.

They have uploaded photographs of the area on the mobile app. It will be mandatory for all the officers to go in field and upload photographs. With this, the head office will monitor cleanliness in the cities across the state.

This incentive has been taken by the department as despite taking a lot of efforts sanitation conditions have not improved in the state.