Robots to clean sewers in Gandhinagar

AHMEDABAD: Gandhinagar became the second city in the state after Surat to use a robot for cleaning manholes. The robot can clean manholes up to 8.5 m.
The robot has been gifted to the capital project department, which oversees works in Gandhinagar, by Sabarmati Gas Company under its corporate social responsibility. Speaking on the occasion, deputy CM Nitin Patel said that once the results of this robot are analysed, the state government will make it available for corporations and municipalities in the state.

The robot can attend to at least 10 manholes in a day. It will also give input on gases present inside. Patel said that the state government, as per the SC directive, has stopped the practice of people being lowered in the manhole for the cleaning work.