MCC workers to scan QR code via smartphones while collecting garbage

MCC workers to scan QR code via smartphones while collecting garbage

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, April 16, 2025: The Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) has asked its pourakarmikas collecting solid waste from doorsteps of people to scan the QR code installed outside the houses and apartments and other establishments using the ‘Mangaluru Smart City’ app installed on their smart phones, from tomorrow.

When scanned, the Integrated Command Control Centre (ICCC), a central hub for managing and monitoring various operations in the city, will get an intimation about collecting solid waste from doorsteps at every ward. This will help the corporation monitor whether garbage has been picked up from a particular area in a ward.

Officials of Mangaluru Smart City Ltd. (MSCL) installed the app on the mobile phones of solid waste collectors at a programme in Kudmul Ranga Rao Town Hall here on Tuesday.

Speaking to presspersons on the sidelines of the programme, Raju K., Managing Director, MSCL, and Ravichandra Naik, Commissioner, Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC), said that the drivers and loaders have been trained on using the app.

Asked about some of the QR codes installed on the premises of establishments long ago not existing now, Mr. Raju said that MSCL would re-install them.

Mr. Naik said earlier the pourakarmikas had been given a device to scan the code. However, some of the loaders had lost them leading to a hiccup in monitoring the solid waste collection. Now, the device has been replaced with the app installed on the smart phones. It will help streamline the monitoring of solid waste collection and transportation.

The MCC Commissioner said that the civic body collected about 200 tonnes of solid waste daily. This consisted of 120 tonnes of wet waste and 80 tonnes of dry and sanitary waste.

Of 2.37 lakh properties in the city, the QR code has been installed at 90,000 properties.  

“The QR code installed need not match with the actual number of properties. For example, if an apartment has 100 flats, one QR code has been installed to cover all flats. But each of those 100 flats is considered as separate property,” the commissioner explained.