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Ahead of monsoon, BMC completes only one-third of its drain-cleaning target
Updated On: 05 May, 2022 08:59 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
First, it was roads; now official data shows that BMC has done only a third of desilting work, and has just four weeks to remove 2.3 lakh tonnes of waste, raising fears of bad flooding come monsoon
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A machine removes silt from Mithi river, at BKC, on April 14. Pic/Shadab Khan
With little over a month to go before the monsoon hits the city, the BMC has completed just 34 per cent of its drain-cleaning target. While civic chief I S Chahal had asked his teams to get nullahs cleaned in double shifts and finish the work by May 15, it is unlikely that it would be done even by May 31.
Clogged drains often trigger flooding during heavy rain. The cleaning of nullahs starts from the first week of March. But this year it was delayed. Of the seven civic zones in the city, the BMC’s standing committee approved a proposal to clean drains only in one zone before the corporation’s term ended on March 7.
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