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BSNL to monitor Urban Local bodies Vehicles for Swachh Bharat Mission across India

Urban Development ministry signs MoU with BSNL to track waste transportation for Swachh Bharat Mission.

State run Telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has entered into partnership with Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) to track and monitor vehicles engaged in collection and transporation of solid waste in 4041 urban local bodies (ULBs) across the country for Swachh Bharat Mission. 


As per latest information, BSNL has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with MoUD to develop information and Communications Technology (ICT) platform – eSBM – for enabling effective reporting, monitoring and control of individual municipalities and on-ground workers through a web application.


On this occasion of BSNL Chairman-cum-managing director, Anupam Srivastava said, ‘The platform would further enable individual municipalities to manage and monitor their workforce and the fleet assigned to collect waste, hence using technology to solve on-ground issues’


The ICT platform, which likely to go live by June 2016, will allow the cities to monitor fleet status through a GPS based vehicle tracking system.


In a statement Shri Praveen prakash, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Urban Development and Mission Director-Swachh Bharat Mission, said ‘The application and platform developed will help the center and individual ULBs to ensure effective implementation of waste management and waste collection’.


The e-SBM ICT platform will be ready for launch by May 2016 and the implementation of the solution and hardware devices in vehicles will be done within the next two months. The first phase of the roll-out is planned for 75 major cities across the country.

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