MUMBAI: To prevent slum dwellers from dumping garbage into nullahs, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC) is planning to install dustbins along the nullahs at around 400 spots in the city. Every year, the civic body carries a nullah cleaning drive before monsoon to clean city culverts. However, people continuing to dump waste material into cleaned nullahs, especially in slum areas, has always remained a cause for concern for the civic officials.
"People in slum areas treat nullahs as dumping ground. Throwing garbage, especially plastic bags, is the main cause of clogging of nullahs. Despite repeated appeals, they keep on dumping garbage into nullahs after desilting is done," said Laxman Vhatkar, director (engineering services). Around 400 spots have been identified and we have sent this list to the solid waste management department, he added.
According to the civic officials, 70 per cent of the nullah cleaning is done before the monsoon, 20 per cent during the monsoon and 10 per cent afterwards. The civic body collects the silt taken out from the nullahs and ferry it at the dumping grounds. But people living on the banks of nullahs and nearby areas continue to dump waste material, which includes garbage, plastic bags, bottles, thermacoal, even broken furnitures like chairs, tables and sofa-sets."There is a need to instill a civic sense in citizens. No matter how much nullah cleaning we carry out, people keep on dumping garbage into them, which mostly involves floating material like plastic bags, bottles and thermacoal. This sends a wrong signal that nullah cleaning has not been done properly, due to which BMC's name gets spoiled," said a senior civic official.
Last year, Mayor Sunil Prabhu and civic chief Sitaram Kunte had made a public appeal to citizens to keep nullahs clean during the monsoon. The civic body had also carried out a public awareness campaign with the help of announcements in newspapers and radio channels.
The clogging of drains due to plastic carrybags was one of the major reasons for the 26/7 deluge in 2005, in which the entire city came to a standstill and over thousand people lost their lives.
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