The Chandigarh city has armed its team of waste collectors with vehicle tracking app, PPE kits and smart watches to provide services at households that are being quarantined.
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The city has allocated 15 vehicles with a team of drivers and helpers equipped with Personal protective equipment (PPE) kits were deputed for collection and transportation of waste from Quarantines households.
Quarantined households were divided into four zones supervised by one supervisor each.
All the drivers of these collection vehicles wear GPS enabled smartwatch under the e-Human Resource Tracking Project (E-HRTS).
The movement of all vehicles is tracked through these smartwatches through a dashboard. The sole target of this tracking is to ensure that no Quarantined household should be left out.
Public places are sanitized regularly. Sanitization of dense areas/ slums and mandis is being carried out using Drones. The migrant-worker shelter has been set up where pre-cooked food is being served to the workers.
