Corporation officials to have smartphones soon

The Chennai Corporation has proposed to hand over smart phones to officials ward level conservancy inspectors and engineers. The move is to ensure accountability in the institution.

�(We) will provide smartphones to civic staff to take pictures of garbage bins, roads, encroachments on footpaths and building violations. The budget for the project is yet to be decided� The phones will be used to monitor garbage collection. They can also be used to check encroachments and illegal construction in the future� We can follow up on complaints from the public by checking the pictures taken by field-level officials. It will help us track civic work more effectively. The pictures will contain the time and date of the shot� We have asked NIC (National Informatics Centre) to develop an exclusive mobile application for us�, said Vikram Kapur, Corporation Commissioner.