In a bid to curb the stink emanating from garbage bins placed in the open in several parts of the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to install them in pits specially dug for the purpose. Four such bins, fitted with sensors that will alert civic personnel when they get filled up, will be installed in different spots in south Mumbai as part of a pilot project.

The Solid Waste Management department of the BMC on Monday put out a tender inviting firm to install the four bins. A BMC official said that the first round of the project, expected to be completed by the end of the year, would be extended to other parts of the metropolis depending on its success.