Nagpur: The Nagpur Smart City has hired three robots to clean and maintain manholes in Nagpur so that sanitation workers can clean them safely without entering the manholes of sewer lines. Municipal Commissioner and Administrator Radhakrishnan B, Nagpur Smart City CEO Chinmoy Gotmare on Monday witnessed the cleaning done by the robot.
Additional Commissioner Ram Joshi, Superintending Engineer Manoj Talewar, Deputy Commissioner (Solid Waste Management) Gajendra Mahalle, General Manager Mobility Department of Smart City. Dr. Rajesh Dufare, General Manager of e-Governance Department. Dr. Sheel Ghule, Head of Environment Department Pranitha Umredkar, Dr Parag Anmal, Kunal Gajbhiye and others were present on the occasion.
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The Board of Directors of Nagpur Smart City had decided to lease the state-of-the-art robot machine. This robot machine will help to relieve the problem of sanitation workers in Nagpur city. This initiative is aligned with the vision of Nagpur Smart City to bring more safety in the maintenance of manholes in the city using advanced technology.
The Chief Executive Officer of Nagpur Smart City Chinmoy Gotmare said that currently manual scavenging has been banned under the Manual Scavenging Act 2013. Nagpur Municipal Corporation has 10 jetting machines and 4 suction machines. It helps in cleaning the sewer chambers on major roads. But it becomes difficult to do this on narrow roads. Robot cleaning system will help to solve this problem. He also said that this manual scavenging robot based on IOT will help in cleaning the sewer chambers even in small streets or alleys. Apart from this, this is a pilot project and if satisfactory work is found, the NMC will consider purchasing more robots. These robots have been taken on lease from Genrobotics Company. Nagpur Smart City has fixed a rent of Rs 7 lakh for each robot to this company, he said.
Robot armed with a camera and mechanical arms:
The robot, adopted for the cleaning and maintenance of manholes in the city, has a camera and mechanical arms. The robot can clean manholes at a depth of about 10 metres. In Swachh Bharat Mission 2.0, the Central Government has decided to use machines instead of humans to clean manholes. This is a great step of the civic body towards a clean and beautiful Nagpur. This bandicoot robot has been created by a Kerala start up company and this invention has won an award.
