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Bengaluru Mandates GPS Tracking for All Garbage Vehicles to Boost Transparency
- •Bengaluru Development Minister Krishna Byre Gowda announced mandatory GPS tracking for all waste-collection vehicles to improve transparency and accountability in solid waste management.
- •The new system will verify vehicle routes, coverage, and operation times, helping address gaps in doorstep collection and ensuring administration responsibility.
- •The city generates 6,500 tonnes of waste daily, with the existing collection system struggling to cope with increased population and waste generation.
- •The government is reorganizing the system into 33 packages, introducing higher capacity vehicles to increase transportation capacity to 9,000 tonnes daily.
- •Bulk waste generators, numbering around 50,000, are urged to segregate and process waste at source, as many currently add 1,000 tonnes to household waste collection.
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The Karnataka government is mandating GPS tracking for all waste-collection vehicles in Bengaluru to improve transparency, accountability, and automatically verify if vehicles have followed their assigned routes. This technology enables authorities to track which roads vehicles have covered and how long they stayed in operation.
Bengaluru currently generates around 6,500 tonnes of waste a day, supported by about 5,200 auto-tippers operating with an average capacity of roughly one tonne each. Meanwhile, previous agency data noted that none of the city's 5,150 auto-tippers previously featured GPS tracking.
Bengaluru has roughly 50,000 bulk waste generators, but only about 2,000 have arrangements with authorised vendors as required by rules. The government stated that bulk generators must segregate waste on their premises and compost or process it at source, offering downstream services for this processed waste without extra service charges.
