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The Mechanical Engineering Department operates and maintains a fleet of 1049 vehicles and equipments of various makes and models and is deployed for various functions as below:

  • Garbage and Debris Clearance
  • Street Light Repairs
  • Health Support Systems like Ambulances, Fogging Operations, and Cattle raids
  • School Bus for Educational Tours etc.
  • Maintenance of Parks and Centre Medians.
  • Inspection Purposes
  • Road Repair Works.

The fleet comprises of

Big Compactors (14 Cu.M. capacity)    - 143
Small Compactors (6 Cu.M Capacity)  - 132

To lift garbage from the dustbins placed in the streets, Compact the garbage and transport to Transfer stations.

Haulage Trucks                                       -  37

To cart bulk quantity of garbage from Transfer Stations to Dumpsites.

Tipper Lorries                                           -177

To Transport the debris from streets to dump sites

Electrical Ladders                                   -  26

For repairing of Street Lights.

Tanker Lorries                                         -  28

Maintenance of Parks and Centre Medians.

Excavator With Grappler                        – 17

The Grapplers are used for loading garbage from Transfer Stations on to Haulage Trucks, and desilting of canals by Health Dept., as part of anti malarial activity.

Front End Loaders                                 -   21

To load debris from streets to Tipper lorries, To make trenches, To remove encroachments, Sectioning garbage in the transfer stations.

Skid Steer Loaders                                -   57

To lift garbage/debris from interior roads/slum roads and load into debris lorries.

Bulldozers                                              -    2

Leveling of Garbage in Dump Sites.

Inspection Vehicle                               -    147

Inspection Purposes

Mechanical Sweepers                           -   10

To sweep and suck the fine dust particles deposited on the roads especially in the centre medians & water tables.

Cattle Catchers                              -           11

For Cattle raid purpose

Thermo fog mounted vehicle      -               25

For Fogging operation purpose.

Other categories                             -          183

Buses for Education, Tractors for the removal of garbage, Ambulances, Dog catching vans, etc.

Road Rollers                                  -            33

For Road Repair Works.


After inclusion of the erstwhile
            9 Municipalities
            8 Town Panchayats
            25 Village Panchayats

to step up the level of civic services in these included areas following special vehicles / equipments are being procured:

Sl. No.

Description

Requirement
(in Nos.)
  1.  

Compactor equipments of 14 Cu.M. capacity mounted on HMV Chassis

43
  1.  

Compactor equipments of 6 Cu.M. capacity mounted on LMV Chassis

45
  1.  

HMV Taurus tipper vehicles of 2 Cu.M. capacity

22
  1.  

Hydraulic Excavator equipment with Grappler attachment for loading garbage in Transfer station

9
  1.  

HMV Tipper lorries for debris & garbage removal

15
  1.  

Front End Loader with Back hoe attachment

11
  1.  

Small Skid Steer Loader equipment

27
  1.  

Big Mechanical Sweeper vehicle

8

TOTAL

180

The total cost of the above procurements is Rs.42.08 Crores.
The Department also encompasses in its scope of activities the following:

  • Regular Disposal of condemned vehicles/equipments and iron, wood and plastic scraps by auctioning
  • In the Printing Press various printing works like IMRN Books; IMI Books; Registers & forms for Health Department; Education Department Certificates etc.
  • The CRS operates and maintains 33 Road Rollers which are deployed for road laying; attending to patch works.
  • In  line with Govt. Policy of providing free services, Freezer boxes are available for transporting dead bodies free of cost and similarly Mortuary Vans are also available for same purpose.  These are deployed from the 2 Major Vehicle Depots at North Chennai & South Chennai.

The above functions are carried out with the following infrastructures and manpower.

  • There are 2 major Vehicle Depots Viz. North Chennai Depot & South Chennai Depot and full fledged 8 Zonal depots, another 7 Zonal depots are under development.
  •   A complement of 1106 Drivers are utilised for operation of the vehicles
  • The Mechanical Staff comprising of Mechanics, Electrician, Welders, etc totalling 191 nos. from part of the Department.
  • The Administrative; Supervisory and Executive Staff comprising of Superintending Engineer, Executive Engineers, Asst.Exe.Engineers, Asst.Engineers/Junior Engineers and other ministerial staff totalling 60 nos play a vital role in the smooth functioning of the large department.
  • For cost effective and efficient functioning, outsourcing of maintenance activities like Operation & Maintenance of Compactors; Skid Steer Loaders; is being followed.
GPS:

   Bids have been invited for the proposed Vehicle Tracking System using GPS/GIS whose scope includes comprehensive 24 x 7 On-line vehicles tracking which will be available in Corporation of Chennai Portal. Various MIS Outputs/Statements are to be generated for an Efficient, Effective Vehicle Management.
  Compactor Bins placed on streets are emptied in to Compactors which transport them to Transfer Station.
  Garbage unloading by Compactors at Transfer station and loaded by Excavator Equipments into Haulage Trucks which take these to Dump Sites.