"BERHAMPUR CITY GETS SMARTER"

Berhampur is 1st city in Odisha which installed Underground Waste Bins with sensors

Launching a first of its kind initiative to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi’s dream of a clean India, the Berhampur Municipal Corporation (BeMC)has installed the underground garbage bin facility fitted with sensors.

With this, the city has become the first Municipal Corporation in the State to have a smart underground bin system. The project kicked-off after inauguration by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.

BeMC Commissioner Chakraborty Singh Rathore said, “The waste bins have been fitted with sensors that will send alerts to control room as soon as they get filled. We have dashboards that signal green, yellow and red based on the level of garbage in the dustbins. The bins will signal green if the waste level is below 40 per cent; waste up to 70 per cent level will signal yellow and the moment the waste reaches 80 per cent, it will signal red in the dashboard and we will send cranes to empty the bins.”

“This is a complete sensor-based technology. So there will be no problem in the maintenance of the entire system,” assured Rathore.