The Municipal Corporation mentioned a prior count of 100 garbage dumping sites, reduced to 35 through continuous monitoring and public awareness efforts
The City’s Municipal Corporation is adopting a proactive approach against open waste dumping, taking inspiration from the traffic police of Chandigarh. They’ve initiated the implementation of online surveillance to issue fines to those found littering. CCTV cameras, equipped with an alert system, have been set up at 10 garbage vulnerable points (GVP) already.
According to officials there are around 35 spots where constant littering occurs , these locations are slated to have CCTV surveillance by the next month. Presently, 10 spots have operational cameras, and officials have begun receiving live feeds on their mobile devices.
The plan aims to connect all CCTV cameras to the Chandigarh Smart City Limited’s supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) centre in Sector 17 by the end of November. This system is modelled after the Integrated Command and Control Centre in Sector 17, akin to the one used by traffic police to issue challans to violators.
“The only difference is that the traffic violations get recorded automatically and later the police verify the footage to issue challans. In case of SCADA, we will have our staff members monitor the 35 GVPs and act against violators,” said an official, adding those dumping garbage in the open would be fined Rs 12,200.
The SCADA team will scrutinise the footage to pinpoint vehicle registration numbers responsible for the littering. Even if waste is dumped by other civic bodies, their vehicles will be identified and penalised accordingly. For individual offenders, typically from nearby areas, identification will rely on images captured. The area sanitation wing will then track and issue fines to these offenders.
The Municipal Corporation mentioned a prior count of 100 garbage dumping sites, reduced to 35 through continuous monitoring and public awareness efforts. These sites, often in market areas and open grounds, attract waste disposal, eventually turning into dumping grounds. The investment in these cameras has amounted to approximately Rs 39.96 lakh.