MCR becomes the first corporation of State to use SCADA system to monitor sanitation facilities

With the installation of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, the Municipal Corporation of Rishikesh (MCR) has become the first municipal corporation in Uttarakhand to use this system to monitor and control the sanitation facilities in a city. The Rishikesh mayor, Anita Mamgain and the municipal commissioner Narendra Singh inaugurated SCADA system room on Tuesday in the premises of the corporation.

Informing further about this, tax and revenue superintendent, Ramesh Rawat said the corporation recently hired a solid waste management company to manage the sanitation facilities in 40 wards which will start on February 10. He said that the corporation will be able to monitor the movement of all the vehicles used for garbage collection and disposal with the GPS based tracking system and real-time tracking system. “Through such systems, we will be able to ensure that the hired company is actually working and managing the sanitation facilities efficiently across the city,” said Singh. He also informed that the corporation will also be able to track how much dry waste and wet waste was collected in a day by the company and on the basis of it, the MCR will pay the company for its services.

Moreover, the locals will also get e-bills for the door to door service and will be able to pay their monthly charges through digital transaction apps too, as per the officials. Singh said that the MCR can track and control the sanitation facilities with the help of SCADA which makes it the first municipal corporation in State to adopt such a high-tech system to monitor and facilitate sanitation facilities in all the wards and according to him, this initiative will definitely alleviate the position of Rishikesh in Swachh Survekshan 2021.

Wednesday, 10 February 2021 | PNS | Dehradun