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Connected Government, E-Government

Mobile phone clicks to monitor sanitation workers

By Anshupriya Jha | 27 May 2011

The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation in Orissa is planning to use real-time photographs to monitor the performance of public servants responsible for sanitation and the functioning of other civic amenities in the city.

It would soon start using Multimedia Messaging Service-enabled mobile phones to capture photographs of these sanitation employees at work. It would also record the date and time of the click.

The images would then be sent to the central server in the Municipal Corporation office. It would not only help in gauging the employees’ performance but would also help know the level of sanitation across the city.

The pictures will be clicked twice daily – once in the morning and once in the afternoon. It has already been tested in one ward and would soon be implemented across the city. Tampering with the system would not be easy given that the server would have all the details. To make it foolproof, the corporation would hire photographers from outside.

The system would also be extended to electricity department staff fixing poles.

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