India, April 11 -- As part of its pre-monsoon prep, the civic administration has rolled out a digital tool to tighten oversight on its annual desilting operations and curb malpractices among contractors. GPS trackers have now been fitted to contractors' dumpsters so that the entire process, from desilting Mumbai's 911-km-long storm-water drain network to dumping the waste extracted, is tracked and monitored digitally.

As part of this process, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is using 'geo-fencing' to make sure the silt is disposed of only at designated dumping sites. Geo-fencing technology creates a virtual boundary around a specific area using GPS technology. This enables software to trigger an alert when a GPS tracker enter...