50 battery-operated vehicles to collect garbage from city
(WorldNews India)

Coimbatore: Don´t be surprised if an electric vehicle comes to your gate to collect garbage. The city corporation has placed an order to buy 50 such vehicles with a capacity of 350kg to ease the workload of its sanitary workers and to speed up garbage collection. `We will provide these vehicles to all the zones and purchase more once they are put to use. We will employ drivers on contract to operate them. A sanitary worker will collect the waste and put it in the bins,` said a corporation official. Currently, battery-operated vehicles are being used in ward 90 in Kovai Pudur, at...