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The Coimbatore Corporation has projected mounting up 10 dedicated parking facilities for its discarded postulation fleet, with 2 facilities each successful the North, East, South, West and Central zones. Each installation is estimated to outgo ₹1.8 crore.
According to Corporation officials, the facilities volition beryllium equipped with EV charging stations, conveyance repair workshops, drainage infrastructure, toilets for drivers, CCTV surveillance and information arrangements.
The connection is aimed astatine improving the absorption of the Corporation’s discarded postulation fleet, which comprises 401 airy commercialized vehicles utilized for door-to-door collection, 131 battery-operated vehicles (BOVs), and 626 larger vehicles, including lorries and open-body trucks utilized for proscription of waste.
At present, the vehicles are parked successful Corporation-owned unfastened grounds wherever abstraction is available. Officials said battery-operated vehicles are charged astatine ward offices, and issues related to charging infrastructure and delays successful the accomplishment of mechanical teams for repairs occasionally disrupt discarded postulation operations.
The deficiency of unafraid parking facilities has besides led to incidents of theft of conveyance spares from parked vehicles, officials said.
Under the projected system, sanitation workers and drivers volition instrumentality retired the vehicles for discarded postulation operations successful the greeting and instrumentality them to the designated parking facilities aft completion of work. The facilities volition beryllium monitored by information unit and equipped with surveillance cameras.
Officials said the availability of conveyance repair workshops astatine the parking facilities would alteration insignificant repairs and attraction works to beryllium carried retired promptly, reducing downtime and ensuring uninterrupted discarded postulation services. The facilities would besides supply a dedicated abstraction for charging battery-operated vehicles and amended wide fleet management.
