Ghaziabad: The Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation(GMC) has installed GPS trackers in over 400 diesel vehicles, which ferry garbage from around the city to dumping yards.
The move came after it came to notice that drivers, in connivance with GMC staffers, would show on paper that the vehicles moved from one part of the city to another, even when they didn’t. Thus, they would siphon off the diesel funds.
With the installation of GPS and other mechanisms, the GMC officials claim that they have already started saving Rs 70 lakh per month.
“The need for installing GPS in GMC’s diesel vehicles used to ferry civic waste was felt a few years ago when the corporation uncovered fraud, in which money from diesel funds was siphoned off. After a few hit-and-trials, we have finally devised a mechanism that puts an end to this fraud,” said Mahendra Singh Tanwar, municipal commissioner.
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