July 14, 2018
MCG commissioner Yashpal Yadav said, he will inquire into the matter raised and take action.
The Swachh Map app, which was launched by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram in 2 years back, has been found to be using 'fake images' to notify users that the places marked as dirty by them have been cleaned up by the Authorities.
Hindustan Times had uploaded 13 pictures of different garbage piles in 5 areas on the app on 9th July. One of those spots was marked as clean by the MCG on 10th July.
The response to the complaint via the app on July 12 - though the MCG is required to take action & respond within 24 hours - with pictures of 6 spic-and-span spots.
HT revisited the spots 3 hours after receiving the response, & found that the ground situation was had no chang, with the garbage heap the same as before. “Your reported dirty place is cleaned now. Thank us by tweeting about it,” the app said.
The Swachh App was supposed to make the Municipal Corporation more accountable & let residents report problems such as garbage pile-ups, potholes, unclean toilets, open defecation & sewage leakage.
It was launched in the city on October 2, 2016 & according to the Swachh App dashboard, complaints filed on the app have led to 2290 spots being cleaned since. Only 70 more are awaiting a clean-up, it claims.
The fake images uploaded by the MCG were close-up shots of a concrete ground, with no discernible way of verifying whether it's the same area or not.
MCG commissioner Yashpal Yadav, asked for the location & pictures of the places to find out if the pictures were indeed fake. “People throw garbage even after cleaning. So, it's a continuous process,” he said, adding that he'll inquire into the matter raised & take action.
Source HT
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