KOCHI: For the first time in Kerala, a panchayat is gearing up to use spy cameras to monitor people who dump waste in open spaces. Edathua panchayat in Alappuzha has got the approval from the district planning committee (DPC) to install spy cameras at places where garbage is being frequently dumped.“Garbage has been a long menace. Slaughterhouses dump waste in plastic bags in the open. The waste generated in hotels are being dumped in the same manner. As this has become a menace in the panchayat, we decided to have a novel system to nab the culprits. And the idea of spy cameras came out of this thought,” panchayat president K L Bindu told ‘Express’.It was only on Monday that the High Court prohibited the dumping of waste in plastic bags in public places. “DPC had already sanctioned `1 lakh to buy and installing spy cams,” she said. The images from the spy cams can be viewed from the panchayat office itself. It would help in catching the culprits red-handed and handing over them to the police.Though the panchayat had placed notice boards prohibiting dumping of garbage, Bindu said people continued to violate the rule. Even the police were helpless in this issue. Bindu said that a tender would be invited for spy cams at the earliest. “In two months time, the spy cams would be installed,” she said.As a move to clean up the region from solid waste, the panchayat has decided to set up a bio-gas plant. “The gas from the plant would be provided free of cost to hospitals and educational institutes in the region,” she said. The search for setting up the bio-plant is on, she said and hoped that the plant would come up in six months.
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