Dikhyaa Mohanty 
In a big drive toward making the city cleaner, greener, and more habitable, the Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Monday brought out six new robotic sweeping trucks. With the fleet’s inauguration by Housing & Urban Development (H&UD) Minister Krushna Chandra Mahapatra, the city’s automated road-cleaning activities saw a major increase.
Mechanical sweeping will now cover 166 km (or 715 lane-kilometers) of the capital city’s main roadways thanks to the new deployment. This is a huge jump from the former coverage of barely 80 km. The service will also be expanded to areas surrounding BMC limits and adjoining panchayat territories. Bhubaneswar Mayor Sulochana Das, the BMC Commissioner, Standing Committee Chairperson, and numerous other dignitaries attended the inauguration.
Officials claimed the expanded automated cleaning will strengthen urban sanitation and help to Bhubaneswar’s objective of being a cleaner and more ecologically friendly city.
