Aafrin Kidwai 
Headquarters of Tiruchirappalli City Municipal Corporation; Picture by Arun9382834916 – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10694882
The Tiruchirappalli Municipal Corporation has launched 100 new battery-powered waste collection vehicles and two automated road sweeping trucks to improve its solid waste management efforts in the city. The vehicles were purchased at a cost of Rs 2.20 crore with the Smart City Mission fund, reports The Times of India.
The battery-powered waste collection vehicles are for waste door-to-door waste collection in the narrow residential streets and have the capacity to collect a maximum of 500 kg of domestic waste each. The infrastructure to recharge the vehicles was facilitated at the micro compost centres (MCC) of the civic body. Once fully charged, the vehicles can be operated for 100km.
Two road sweeper trucks, with a capacity to clean 16,000 sq m of area per hour and six cubic metres capacity, have also been deployed by the Corporation at a cost of Rs 1.73 crores.
