In order to monitor the waste disposal process centrally, the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)-led North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NMC) has decided to equip its all garbage-lifting vehicles with Global Positioning System (GPS) track facility by mid-February.
In the standing committee meeting held on Thursday, North Corporation Commissioner Varsha Joshi said that the process will be monitored through a control facility at the NMC headquarters in the civic centre.
Joshi said “We are going to install GPS in all vehicles used for lifting garbage, and the target is to finish the work by February 15,”
A senior NMC official said that at present the civic body has 250 garbage lifting vehicles. “About 50 vehicles have already been equipped with GPS, and the rest are planned to be done by mid-February,” he said.
Garbage-lifting vehicles include large vehicles, auto-tippers and other small ones, he added.
Joshi said the door-to-door waste pick-up policy has also been firmed up and “the corporation will also seek to suggest ways for alternative activities of livelihood for rag pickers” who collect plastic and other stuff from 'dhaloas' (garbage dumps).
“We have come up with three-four model plans which have been chalked out in consonance with market welfare bodies, RWAs and group housing societies,” she said.