BMC Deploys AI-Powered Cameras to Curb Illegal Garbage Dumping in Mumbai

Mumbai , Oct 29 (UNI) The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance cameras to deter illegal garbage dumping in public spaces, using real-time detection and audio warnings to discourage littering. The technology has been deployed by the civic body's G/North ward at Gajanan Vatika on Dr Raykar Marg at Mahim in central Mumbai, an area identified as a garbage-vulnerable point (GVP). In a video shared on its official X account, the BMC demonstrated how the system tracks suspected littering in real time. The footage shows a man carrying a green plastic bag approaching a roadside and…