GHMC to Install CCTVs and IoT Systems at 2,500 Hyderabad Garbage Vulnerable Points
The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) is planning to install CCTV cameras and IoT-based public address systems across 2,500 identified Garbage Vulnerable Points (GVPs), sweeping points, and hotspots in Hyderabad to detect illegal waste dumping in real time.
The civic initiative aims to eliminate GVPs through continuous surveillance, immediate detection, and automated warnings against dumping. Cameras are set to be placed at strategic locations to cover designated garbage points and their approaches while avoiding unnecessary capture of private premises.
The IoT-based systems will detect waste dumping as it occurs and automatically issue audio and visual warnings to those caught in the act. Operating without manual intervention from a control room, the system will also capture video evidence of violations. Warnings will primarily be broadcast in Telugu and Urdu, with Hindi and English serving as secondary languages. The automated messages will instruct citizens not to dump garbage at the location and guide them toward designated collection points and door-to-door collection services.
Alerts, photographs, and video clips of each incident will be transmitted directly to the Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC). This feed will allow civic officials to monitor violations remotely and pursue enforcement measures, including issuing penalties or challans under applicable municipal bye-laws.
The surveillance deployment is part of the GHMC's broader Swachh Hyderabad drive, which has previously included barricading vulnerable dumping spots, painting wall art, and converting chronic GVPs into parks. Project sources noted that the plan aligns with the central government's Swachh Bharat Mission (Urban) 2.0, which seeks to achieve garbage-free cities through improved waste management, citizen participation, technology-enabled monitoring, and real-time public messaging.
To implement the project, the GHMC has invited a Request for Proposal (RFP) to select an agency to procure, install, integrate, and comprehensively operate and maintain the CCTV and IoT-based infrastructure across the 2,500 designated locations.
