Taking the IT route to tackle sanitation
The HinduSolid Waste Management has always been a subject of debate in the Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation. Door-to-door garbage collection, debris clearance at public places, transporting and treating it has been top priority for the civic authorities, but still a large number of complaints keep flooding the complaint desk of the corporation. Ganesh, general secretary of Visakhapatnam Apartment Resident Welfare Association GVMC Commissioner P. Raja Babu said there has been a significant improvement in the overall sanitary situation in the city after installing GPS to the garbage trucks and earmarking specified areas to the sanitation staff in the wards. Mr. Raja Babu said that a special taskforce team has been constituted in the GVMC which visits all the zones to check for garbage heaps, drain clearance and also underground drainage problems. The garbage stocks in the mini-dumping yards at Arilova, Cheemalapalli in Pendurthi are being cleared and sent to the Waste to Energy plant.
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