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GIS – MIS - GPS for solid waste management


Senthil Shanmugan
Project Coordinator (GIS), Bangalore Agenda,
Task Force, Bangalore
senthil@blrforward.org

Executive Summary
This paper explains about the experiences of developing GIS-MIS-GPS for Solid Waste Management (SWM) for a typical urban environment in the case of Bangalore City. The various aspects covered in this paper are the Background, Need, methodology, the development process of the three different systems GIS, MIS, & GPS, the various components of the projects, and the integration of the three systems, the implementation and the benefits. The core issue in this paper is how the three systems GIS, MIS & GPS evolved over the period.

Background

Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF): Objectives
In Nov 1999, the State Government of Karnataka constituted the Bangalore Agenda Task Force (BATF) with several eminent professionals. The Objectives of the Task Force are:

• Make Bangalore the best city in India by 2004
• Upgrade and enhance the managerial and administrative capabilities of various civic and administrative stakeholders
• Enable provision of citizen oriented , high quality public services that will improve the physical quality of life for individuals and communities
• Augment financial resources and revenues of stakeholders to enable them to perform at world class levels

Swachha Bangalore (SB)
The Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BMP) supported by Bangalaore Agenda Task Force (BATF) launched an innovative sustainable cleanliness programme called “Swachha Bangalore”. The City has 100 administrative wards, which have been divided into 277 Health wards for functional convenience. Of these, 147 Health wards including two markets are under private contract system of cleanliness. The remaining 128 Health wards are managed through Pourakarmikas of the Corporation. “Swachha Bangalore” targets to cover all these 128 Health wards. Role of BATF in Swachha Bangalore (SB)

• Defining a holistic plan for Swachha Bangalore
• Assessment of present condition and organizational set up
• Financial support towards infrastructure and maintenance
• Facilitating community participation in SWM activities
• Intellectual input – research on design, materials, concept
• Overall monitoring and coordination

Need for GIS-MIS-GPS

• 80% of information used by the health official has spatial component
• Integration of information from various levels of jurisdiction (city, zone, range and health ward level)
• Assimilating voluminous information for analysis
• Maps and other spatial data become way of their job routine
• Not organized - maps and other data
• Not properly updated - data
• No comprehensive or cohesive system to handle large amount of data

GIS-MIS-GPS - Overview
It is comprehensive GIS project for solid waste management, for the Bangalore City Corporation (BCC) health department. The aim of the project is to restructure the entire system of garbage collection, disposal and monitoring using GIS-MIS-GPS. It makes the basis for investments on infrastructure and efficient disposal mechanism or transport model.

The objectives of the project

• Make GIS-MIS as a tool for making decisions on investment in infrastructure facilities
• Make it as an effective & efficient mechanism for managing the garbage
• Route optimization-shortest path from the collection point to the dumping yard
• Maximize all the infrastructure facilities used
• Helps in making decisions about the sorting area, Disposal area, truck routes and transfer station justification.
• Optimize the number of collection points & transport of garbage
• Maximize the Collection coverage, Optimize fuel efficiency
• Optimize the transportation of garbage from collection points to dumpyards

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