BMC refuses to dust off old dirt, city gets dirtier
DNMUM246802 | 6/9/2012 | Author : Geeta Desai | WC :345 | Mumbai
Is your area getting smelly with garbage piling up and no one there to remove it? Blame it on the civic body.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is in a fix as its proposal, to give extension to the old contractors, was tabled too late in the standing committee. Also, the committee rejected it saying neither is the BMC coming up with any new proposal and nor has it improved the existing garbage disposal scheme. Members across the party lines criticised the old scheme and the extension of old contractors.
For the last four meetings, the members have been demanding that the civic administration come up with a comprehensive proposal which will have different contracts and evolve a new pattern for the city.
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y, MNS workers from Mulund had marched up to T ward and dumped garbage at the ward office, which they had collected from their ward, as no one had come to clean it. In areas such as Ghatkopar, Mulund and Bhandup garbage is piling up as there are no contractors. Similarly, in Kandivli, Borivli and Dahisar too the situation is getting worse.
Dhananjay Pisal,NCP leader in the BMC claimed that many contractors have stopped clearing garbage from the city. "The worst sufferers are N, S and T wards," said Pisal who had to make his own arrangements for clearing the garbage in his ward.
Terming the administration and contractors' action as blackmail, Pisal said, "I have asked my fellow corporators to help in their ward as much as possible. We can't let people live in unhygienic conditions."
"We have deployed our own workers forthe task. If the situation is so bad now, what will happen when contractors stop lifting garbage completely? They should be blacklisted," said Raees Shaikh, Samajwadi Party leader.
The contractors' term of lifting garbage from the city ended on May 30. For NGOs which help clean the slum areas, it ends on June 30.
Nearly 70% of the city's garbage is lifted by contractors, NGOs and under the slum adoption scheme, while 30% is handled by the BMC.
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