Geo-fencing to keep track of garbage vehicles in Karnal

Parveen Arora

Tribune News Service

Karnal, February 8

The Karnal Municipal Corporation (MC) has introduced the feature of geo-fencing to track the GPS-enabled garbage vehicles in the city.

As per officials, if a vehicle fails to collect garbage from any house or divert its route, the MC will immediately get an alert. They claim it will help in checking the misuse of the vehicles and in monitoring the performance of employees.

“We were not getting accurate information of the movement of the vehicles. However, now geo-fencing will help in tracking all 88 tippers involved in garbage collection,” said Vikram Singh, MC Commissioner.

This step has been initiated following complaints that garbage vehicles were not regular in their services. “We were receiving complaints that the vehicles were not following their routes and collecting the garbage properly, so we initiated this step. These vehicles are already equipped with the GPS, which shows the location, but now with the help of this new software we are getting alerts if any tipper diverts from its route,” he added.

“We can get real-time report regarding the vehicle movement on a daily basis, which will help in checking the performance of employees too,” Vikram added. He said the move would also help in ensuring 100% door-to-door garbage collection.

Meanwhile, Joint Commissioner Gagandeep Singh said till August 2019, the service was outsourced and contractors maintained the record of the tippers. “We enrol these sweepers on payroll, after which we had witnessed a big challenge of logbook generation and fuel consumption. After introducing geo-fencing, logbook generation has become an easy task due to which the payments of the fuel stations are being made without any difficulty,” he added.

Gagandeep said the involvement of technology in cleanliness was part of the Swachh Survekshan-2021 and it would help in improving the rankings. “This software automatically generates the performance of the employees based on the parameters fixed,” he added.