AAP targets Mumbai civic body, says it failed to clean rivers, sewage ahead of monsoon
India Today
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said on Wednesday that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had failed to clean Mumbai's rivers and nullahs ahead of the monsoon season.
The Aam Adami Party (AAP) on Wednesday alleged that the Shiv Sena-led Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has failed to clean the city's rivers and nullahs as the southwest monsoon approaches.
AAP’s Mumbai unit president, Preeti Sharma Menon, said the party’s volunteers had visited several rivers, nullahs and storm water drains and found that the civic body had done a poor job.
“The party’s city unit visited all flood-prone areas and inspected rivers, nullahs, and storm water drains (SWDs) that cause flooding. We were shocked to find that no pre-monsoon desilting had been done,” Menon said.
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“Only 28 per cent of south Mumbai’s nullahs and SWDs have been desilted, while 58 per cent of the nullahs and SWDs have been cleaned in the eastern suburbs,” she said.
Similarly, 50 per cent of the nullahs and SWDs in the western suburbs have not been cleaned, she said, claiming that even the BMC has admitted it has only cleaned 55 per cent of the city’s minor nallahs, she added.
Even by the BMC’s own figures, major nullahs and SWDs in the city are far from desilted.
