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GPCB-VLTS

Hazardous Waste Real Time Vehicle Location
Tracking System

Edited by RAJEEV JOSHI

he Hazardous Waste Management System is try to destination industry
an extension of the services of the eXtended • Integrated with GPCB’s XGN portal through
TGreen Node (XGN) – a online consent GPCB-VLTS is a comprehensive which online Hazardous Waste Manifests can be
management portal of the Gujarat Pollution web-based application for real- created by the Sender Industries
Control Board (GPCB) which is developed by NIC
and is operational since 2008 as a technological time tracking of the vehicle • Sender Industry can draw the proposed route
innovation tools for the prevention and control of between source and destination point on the
environmental pollution. carrying the hazardous waste map on which the vehicle will be passing towards
As per the state pollution prevention law and from industrial sites to waste the destination.
policy, it is mandatory for safe disposal of the in- management facilities for safe • Once the route is created the trip can be said
dustry produced hazardous waste. The industry is as started and then it will be available on the
sending the hazardous waste either to recyclers disposal of it. The application
or to different industries for safe disposal. The
XGN software facilitates the concerned industry is developed by NIC Gujarat nvironmentally safe disposal of a
for online generation of hazardous waste mani- in collaboration with NIC EHazardous Waste is very important
fest. It was a big challenge for the GPCB to track for pollution control as its mismanage-
the location of those vehicles carrying hazard- Uttarakhand team. It provides ment has a direct impact on the quality
ous waste and also to ensure its safe disposal a very rich dashboard through of the environment. Movement of haz-
at the real destination place. To overcome such ardous waste for its ultimate disposal
issues NIC Gujarat along with the close associa- which the GPCB Control Unit can has already been governed by the online
manifest system on XGN of GPCB. By
track and monitor the vehicle technological intervention, a novel first
carrying the hazardous waste of its kind in hazardous waste manage-
ment online system on XGN has been
Pramod Kumar Singh from source place to destination developed namely “Vehicle Location
Dy. Director General & Tracking System (VLTS)” whereby route
SIO place on predefined route. of hazardous waste carrying vehicle
sio-guj@nic.in would be monitored to ensure that such
truck ply only on the pre-decided route
for the disposal/transportation of the
tion of NIC Uttarakhand team, has developed a hazardous waste only at the destination
web based Vehicle Location Tracking System for as decided at the time of generation of
Pankaj K. Pathak the GPCB. the manifest. The system has been de-
Sr. Technical Director veloped by NIC, Gujarat with the help of
pankaj.pathak@nic.in The system provides the dashboard for re- NIC, Uttarakhand. Hon’ble Chief Minis-
al-time tracking of the vehicles carrying the haz- ter of Gujarat, Shri Bhupendrabhai Patel
ardous waste during the disposal of waste. The has launched this system on 5th June,
system automatically generates various alert 2022 during the World Environment Day
messages to all the concerned stakeholder in- celebration; marking its importance.
cluding if the vehicle is diverted from its pre-de- This e-surveillance
Anil Kumar Arya fined routes. The system also provides the facility will further en-
Sr. Technical Director to view the trip history. Approximately 20,000+ hance tracking of
ak.arya@nic.in manifests are generated monthly basis online hazardous waste
on the XGN Portal of the GPCB. This XGN-hazard- movement in a very
ous waste manifest portal is integrated with the transparent manner.
GPCB-VLTS system to track vehicles carrying the
hazardous waste from source to destination in
Ramakant Soni real-time mode.
Scientist-C Features of the Product
ramakant.soni @nic.in
• Dashboard to monitor the live trips of vehicles R. B. BARAD, IAS
carrying the hazardous waste from source indus- Chairman, Gujarat Pollution Control Board

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