BENGALURU: Your dustbin is full and you have missed the autorickshaw that collects waste at your doorstep. The easiest option would be to fling the bag into the nearest vacant site or a garbage black spot. But soon, the civic body will be able to keep a tab on the missing garbage from your home with the click of a button.
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) is in the process of readying a software to keep track of households disposing waste - or not - through the formal door-to-door collection system. Having already implemented the GIS system for mapping the approximately 19 lakh properties in the city, the palike is planning to tie it up the new software to keep track of waste disposal as well.
Sarfaraz Khan, Joint Commissioner, Solid Waste Management, BBMP told The Hindu that the software, being developed with a telecom operator, will empower its local engineers to keep track of households which are not disposing waste through its collection system. Even if tenants do not fall in line, the owners will face the music.
“The city has been divided into blocks of around 750 houses each. The local officer will be in charge of these houses and will have access to their PID numbers. If they have consistently missed handing over waste to our collection system, we will see how we can fine them. This could even be at the time when they come to pay their property tax,” he added.
The system was tried out in Yelahanka where a system of manual record-keeping was implemented to ensure that everyone hands over their waste.
The city generates approximately 3,500 tonnes of waste each day, with around 1,400 tonnes of it being wet waste. The BBMP plans to give access to the app to some members of Residents Welfare Associations (RWAs) to help its officials.
The software is also expected to help the palike keep an eye on its compactors to prevent the unauthorised collection of waste from bulk generators to make a quick buck.
