LUCKNOW: The City of Nawabs is all set to raise the bar as far as solid waste management is concerned.Drawing inspiration from Pune and under the Smart City project, the Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) will introduce radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology so that bar codes can be used to ensure door-to-door garbage collection. The pilot project in Geetapalli ward will begin very soon, officials said.A bar code will be pasted outside every house and a sanitation worker will be required to scan the same using a smartphone after his/her daily duty. Scanning the bar code will send an instant alert to the LMC control room and is expected to go a long way in checking employee truancy.According to LMC officials, Geetapalli ward has around 49,000 households. The bar code installation work will take three days and the smart garbage collection service will begin soon thereafter. If the pilot project is successful, it will be extended to all the 110 wards under LMC.The civic body’s private partner Ecogreen deploys around 300 workers in every ward for daily door-to-door garbage collection.?15-lakh fund to buy phones for workersWorkers who don’t have a smartphone will be provided the same by LMC, which has earmarked Rs 15 lakh for the same. The phones will have to be deposited with supervisors after a day’s work.Municipal commissioner Indramani Tripathi said the were inspired by Pune Municipal Corporation. “We have bought the technology from a Pune firm at Rs 10 lakh. The bar code will contain the GPS location of every house for easy monitoring from the control room,” he added.