MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has directed its officials to wash 1,000 km of roads daily to settle dust particles.
Already 121 tankers are being used to wash 600 km of roads. Now the civic authorities have decided to hire additional tankers, 10 each in 24 administrative wards. The decision was taken at a review meeting held at the civic headquarters recently. The BMC has also announced a “Mega Deep Cleaning” drive in the new year.
In fact, BMC started washing roads few weeks ago to prevent rising air pollution.
The State Government had instructed BMC to wash 1,000 km of roads daily out of its network of 2,050 km of roads. However, due to limited resources, the BMC could manage to wash only 500 to 600 km of roads daily.
During a review meeting civic officials were instructed to increase manpower and hire additional tankers to achieve the target of washing half of the city’s roads.
The Mega Deep Cleaning drive will be launched from the Gateway of India and implemented in 10 civic wards. Around 1,000 uniformed sanitation workers will demonstrate their machinery there.
The Chief Minister had recently announced that the ‘Mumbai pattern’ of deep cleaning will be implemented in all other cities of the state. Civic officials have also been instructed to take legal action against construction activity that fails to comply with the civic guidelines.
