Kolkata: Kolkata Municipal Corporation’s solid waste management has started geo-tagging its employees entrusted with collecting waste from households.
This is to ensure proper collection is being carried out in all the 144 wards across the city.
The exercise primarily aims at boosting the waste segregation process at the household level.
The managers of the KMC SWM department will photograph the waste collection in a particular ward. They will send the images to the higher-ups in the borough who oversee waste collection, who will send them to the civic headquarters.
There is an app-based monitoring system to keep a watch on waste collection. This is strictly followed in neighbourhoods where waste segregation has taken a back seat.
The conservancy overseers have been asked to monitor the performance of the staff in the field and send evidence of waste collection in the wards daily
The photos of waste collection are sent to the additional directors and then to the KMC headquarters. The performance of each worker is monitored and measured for a week.
Segregation in several South Kolkata neighbourhoods is picking up, but North and central Kolkata are still lagging. The added areas have even lower segregation efficiency.
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