GPS TRACKERS, CAMERAS TO KEEP EYE ON GRAP IMPLEMENTATION

GURUGRAM: The Municipal Corporation of Gurugram ( MCG) has decided to install GPS tackers and cameras to track and monitor the movement of water sprinklers and road-sweeping machines across the city.

This is meant to ensure compliance with the Graded Response Action Plan ( Grap) measures to counter air pollution in the city, said the civic body officials on Saturday.

Officials privy to the matter said that they have been receiving complaints that workers were only watering or cleaning 100-200 metres of a particular stretch of a road and leaving the rest of it as is.

Therefore, in order to overcome this problem, MCG officials have decided to install GPS on all water sprinkler machines and cameras on all road-sweeping machines.

There are 51 water sprinklers and 10 road-sweeping machines in the city, all of which are managed by the MCG. These have been put to use at the stretches with a high volume of traffic, dust-accumulation since October 15 as part of the measures.

As per MCG officials, they have come across instances, where workers simply clicked a picture of them sprinkling water or using a road-sweeping machine as evidence of their. “We are taking all measures to curb environmental violations as well as initiate remedial measures, such as the sprinkling of water and cleaning of stretches with a high volume of traffic and dust accumulation. We have found these remedial measures to be effective in reducing localised air pollution levels,” said Vinay Pratap Singh, commissioner, MCG.

We are taking all measures to curb green norms violations as well reduce pollution VINAY PRATAP SINGH, MCG Commissioner