Overview
- MCD says 52 mechanical road sweepers now cover about 3,400 km of PWD lane length on alternate days, collecting roughly 150 tonnes of dust per sweep.
- Operational changes include switching sweeper shifts to daytime for closer monitoring and extending machine run time from eight to ten hours daily.
- The corporation has deployed 28 water-tanker sprinklers fitted with anti-smog guns, extending shifts to raise road coverage by nearly 20 percent.
- NDMC’s parallel drive fields about 1,574 workers and four GPS-tracked sweepers, processes roughly 43 tonnes of fallen leaves daily at Okhla, and uses anti-smog guns and treated-water sprinkling.
- On day one of the MCD campaign, crews lifted about 250 tonnes of garbage from railway tracks and nearly 500 tonnes from roads, and a March 13 meeting will review sanitation operations and treated-water reuse projects.