The Municipal Corporation of Haridwar (MCH) will use face recognition system to ensure the attendance of sanitation workers and concerned officials to facilitate sanitation facilities during Kumbh in Haridwar. Gearing up for the holy Kumbh, the corporation is planning and working meticulously towards maintaining cleanliness and hygiene when thousands of pilgrims will visit Haridwar.
While talking to The Pioneer about the preparations, the municipal commissioner, Jai Bharat Singh informed that about 12,000 toilets will be made available during the Kumbh that mainly include urinals, mobile toilets and over 4000 Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) toilets besides 1,679 bathrooms. The mobile toilets will mostly be placed nearby sewerage points for easy disposal. Singh further informed that the corporation will install over 5,000 dustbins to dispose of wet and dry waste separately. “We will use around 60 electric rickshaws and 37 vehicles with separate compartments to collect dry and wet garbage and household hazardous waste. A separate compartment for used face masks has also been installed in such garbage collecting vehicles,” said the commissioner.
According to him, the MCH will also be able to track the position and movement of such vehicles through GPS based system. He also stated that the corporation has divided the city into four zones and will soon select four new companies to manage sanitation facilities which will also ensure the proper disposal of collected garbage during Kumbh. Moreover, the corporation will use the manpower of more than 9,000 sanitation workers to maintain sanitation facilities during the Kumbh. Singh informed that the sanitation team will work in three shifts every day and face recognition system will be used to mark their attendance. Meanwhile, the commissioner also asserted that since MCH took various initiatives this year to improve sanitation facilities across the city, it will definitely benefit corporation in the forthcoming inspection of Swachh Survekshan 2021.
Thursday, 11 February 2021 | Purnima Bisht | Dehradun
