Waste Collection Vehicles To Be Fitted With GPS Devices In Delhi On Pilot Basis
ABP NewsA National Green Tribunal-appointed high-level committee has ordered a pilot project to be launched in Delhi to install GPS devices in waste collection vehicles and monitor them in Delhi’s west zone and Dwarka areas. During this meeting, the committee decided to launch the project on a pilot basis in the west zone and Dwarka where cleaning and waste collection starts at 5 am, PTI quotes Raj Niwas officials. They further decided to increase the number of waste collection vehicles and install GPS devices in all of them for better monitoring. During the meeting, it was informed that with LG Saxena's interventions biomining and disposal of legacy waste, which was being carried out by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi at an average rate of 1.4 lakh metric tonnes per month between October 2019 and May 2022, had picked up pace substantially, During the period from June to December 2022, it had reached an average of 6 lakh MT per month, the officials said.
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