BMC displays sector map in garbage lifting vehicles

Bhubaneswar, Dec 17: Making waste collection a better citizen driven initiative, Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has made a mandatory provision of sector map in each Safei Gadi (garbage collection vehicle). Since functioning of Micro Composting Centres (MCCs) in the city partitioned vehicles specially designed for collection of dry and wet waste are covering the identified areas. The vehicles are equipped with public address system playing a title song of “Mu Safei Wala“ to initiate community action for handing over segregated waste. Now all such vehicles have an added facility of sector map which displays route of each locality.  The map contains route of a sector from which the particular vehicle collects wet and dry waste. It also displays timing of arrival to a particular lane from which households giving waste to the vehicle can see the marks over the map. Besides,   one can know how many households have been covered in a given time and how many are left. This citizen friendly display of information serves as a motivator to encourage families to be ready with their double dust bins calculating the arrival of the vehicle to their spots.    The facility of displaying the sector map in the vehicle serves as an information tool for the households of a particular area/sector. Community members can support monitoring the vehicle movement and the waste collection activities of their respective sectors; said Commissioner Sanjaya Kumar Singh. Such participation will strengthen sanitation activities of the state capital, he added.