CASE STUDY – S.A.S NAGAR (MOHALI)

Mohali City is a commercial hub of the southwest region of Chandigarh. The administrative headquarters of Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar is also in Mohali. Its name is based on the eldest son of Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji (Sahibzada Ajit Singh) as SAS Nagar. It is also known as (The City of Sahibzada Ajit Singh), but the name “Mohali” is still popular among the local population.

Municipal Corporation S.A.S Nagar (Mohali), Punjab, covers approximately 40,000 households as per the census of India 2011. Nowadays, Mohali is the most popular city in Punjab in the northern region of India. It is rapidly developing as an IT Hub in Punjab. The government of Punjab has taken many steps to make this city the best place to live in the northern region. This city has many sports venues like an international cricket stadium, hockey stadium, golf course, etc. This city has its own International Airport, and many projects like World Trade Centre are also developing fast.

The Issues and challenges faced by the Municipal Corporation of S.A.S Nagar (Mohali) Punjab

The city’s sanitation department cannot work to its total capacity to remove garbage roadsides, parks, etc., and keep the city roads clean. Some of the other massive challenges faced by Municipal Corporation, S.A.S Nagar are:

• Little attention to detail in cleaning activities across the city, across road markings, city roads, and footpaths.
• Indiscipline amongst sanitation workers, regular absenteeism, non-usage of safety gears and uniforms, lack of accountability, and performance tracking results in inefficient service delivery.
• Illegally dumping waste on roads and irregular cleaning schedules lead to garbage piling up on the street corners or roads.
• Inefficient complaint redressal mechanism leads to delayed action to citizens’ complaints.
• Sanitation workers face elevated risks while working on the roads without proper tools and equipment during peak traffic hours.

Our Objectives –

• To bring transparency to S.A.S Nagar’s sweeping system.
• To mark beats in S.A.S Nagar through GIS-based mapping to eliminate the possibility of any area being left unexplored for sweeping.
• To create S.A.S Nagar's integrated ‘wall to wall’ cleaning model.
• To fix accountability of the workforce who would give proper attention to the assigned area.
• To create a comprehensive monitoring system to keep a vigil on every individual’s work and a fleet for operational accuracy.
• Sweep roads, wash footpaths at night using imported machines and manually haul dust off the roads and road dividers.

Advantages We Deliver

With domain expertise for over 54 years, we endeavour to improve the life cycle of municipal infrastructure by integrating technological advancements within the existing system. We are committed to turning Swachh Bharat’s dream into a reality. Our wide range of innovative and fully integrated municipal services has made us the preferred choice of municipal bodies across India.

Pioneering innovation in every aspect of the business, LSL offers specialised services, including maintenance of public utilities, solid waste management, and city infrastructure management. We serve Municipal Corporation, S.A.S Nagar (Mohali), for GIS-based Mechanical & Manual Sweeping using our best practices and effective decision-making tools.

• Superior – We use the best-in-class imported machine Dulevo that minimises the dust cloud formation while sweeping the city roads. We use power washing equipment to clean footpaths to ensure superior city cleaning.
• Maintain Cleaning Operations Data – We continuously monitor the routes of sweeping machines and staff attendance using a real-time GIS tracking system to maintain cleaning operations data regularly.
• Enhance Employee Safety – While sanitation workers manually sweep the roads using brooms during peak traffic hours, they are more likely to encounter accidents. Mechanically sweeping roads and washing footpaths using proper tools and equipment during peak traffic hours reduce the possibility of accidents.
• Reduction in Air Pollution – Almost 60% of the dust gets airborne while manually sweeping the roads using brooms and settles back on the street. Cleaning hazardous dust particles such as PM10 and PM2.5 off the roads using machines minimises the health risks to sanitation workers.
• Ensure Better Public Health – Dirty roads, pavements, and roadsides are unsanitary and can become breeding grounds for pests that are likely to spread diseases among the city’s population. We clean and sweep roads, and pavements regularly to ensure better public health.
• Increase Productivity – One mechanical sweeper can work equivalent to the human strength of 15-20 manual sweepers and can sweep approximately 10X times the area as compared to a manual sweeper; we ensure increased productivity using our machines while achieving superior performance cleaning.
• Night-time Operations – It allows for more efficient road sweeping and footpath washing without disruption to daytime traffic and ensures the safety of the sanitation workers.
• Improve City Aesthetics – Keeping the city roads and footpaths clean is necessary for easy manoeuvrability, to make the city look clean, and contributes to citizens’ pride.