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Trichy: Taking a cue from police patrol and beat vehicles assigned for surveillance activity, the Trichy Corporation has launched an exclusive mobile solid waste management (SWM) flying squad. With an officer on board, the squad will identify and penalise people on the spot for violations pertaining to the revised solid waste management (SWM) rules. The squad will also penalise shops if they fail to place two bins each for biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste in their establishments.“A sanitary officer will be on board the SWM squad vehicle to oversee cleanliness of all four zones in civic body limits. Even though the civic body has generated more than Rs 2.6 lakh throrugh penalties for non-compliance of SWM rules in the past seven months, it maintained that the objective was not to generate revenue but to streamline public. The civic body has identified several hotspots in the city where public littering is significant and the squad will be spending additional hours in inspecting such neighbourhoods.So far, the civic body had been heavily spending time and resources on spreading awareness on SWM such as source segregation and mandatory handing over of accumulated domestic waste to sanitary workers in door-to-door waste collection..