TIRUPATI: In a bid to intensify door-to-door garbage collection campaign, Municipal Corporation of Tirupati (MCT) has introduced Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tagging to monitor the process of garbage collection across the city and to track the attendance of sanitation workers.
As part of the initiative, MCT has been tagging individual houses, private establishments and apartments across the city with the help of a private agency that comprises of technical teams which are currently fixing the RFID tags.
To intensify its efforts to improve sanitation in the Pilgrim City, MCT had introduced the door-to-door garbage collection programme so as to cover each and every household in the city along with segregation of wet and dry waste from the all the households.
To ease out the campaign, MCT has divided 48 wards in the city into 371 micro packets where each one comprises 300-350 houses. Six sanitation workers will be deployed in each ward to carry out the door-to-door garbage collection while a supervisor will be in-charge of the group to oversee the collection.
Speaking to DC, MCT Commissioner V. Vijayarama Raju said that the Corporation is determined to execute the door-to-door garbage collection in a foolproof manner. “For this, we have divided the wards into 371 packets. After RFID tagging comes into effect, the sanitation workers will be instructed to scan the RFID tags, with the scanners that will be provided to them, every day at the time of garbage collection from each house.
The RF signal will reach the real time monitoring system once the tag is scanned and the officials can monitor the garbage collection programme and track the attendance of workers and other details. If any worker is absent for their duty, the officials can immediately depute another worker to that division,” the Commissioner explained.
Meanwhile, so far, around 11 divisions have been tagged and the remaining houses will be tagged within 15 days and RFID scanning will come into effect by the third week of November. MCT has also brought battery operated e-rickshaws into service for door-to-door garbage collection in the Temple City.
