A white coloured card with a QR code will be installed at the entry gate of every house. With the help of mobile phones, the cleanliness staff can scan the QR code, after which the code in the control room would turn green.
Gaya Municipal Corporation (GMC) in a bid to ensure a clean and smart city, has concluded to install QR cards in more than 70,000 buildings. By March next year under the municipal area OR cards will be introduced to ensure lifting of garbage regularly. The project has already commenced, and a private agency will oversee the work of QR card installation in the city.
Among all urban local bodies, the GMC has recently attained the top position in the state having a population of less than 10 lakh in Swachh Survekshan 2021.
If garbage is not collected from the houses or localities mobile application will be developed by the municipal corporation where citizens can report their complaints. After a complaint, the garbage will be collected or lifted within 2-3 hours. From the control room, all garbage lifting will be monitored and to be made functional at the GMC office.
A white coloured card with a QR code will be installed at the entry gate of every house. With the help of mobile phones, the cleanliness staff can scan the QR code, after which the code in the control room would turn green.
A biometric attendance system will be introduced to ensure that the cleaning staff does not skip duty.
Also, to ensure transparency and track location GPS has been installed in the vehicles being used in garbage lifting. To make the process working house owner can register their complaints at the control room if there is any abnormality in the lifting of garbage.
Mayor Birendra Kumar alias Ganesh Paswan said, “The project would be carried out in all the 53 wards. The agency entrusted with the work would be setting up the control room and other necessary infrastructure very soon.”
He added: “We often received complaints from people that garbage was not collected from their houses or any particular locality. On some occasions, slackness by cleanliness staff also came to light. The QR card would ensure transparency. People will be able to register their complaints, if any, on the app being developed for the purpose.”