Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], August 2 (ANI): The Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) has launched a citywide cleanliness drive following latest instructions from the Bombay Excessive Courtroom, with civic authorities deciding to put in CCTV cameras at rubbish dumping hotspots and impose strict penalties on these discovered littering or illegally dumping waste.
The BMC’s Stable Waste Administration Division has launched the great marketing campaign to enhance seen cleanliness throughout Mumbai and its suburbs, forestall open dumping and completely get rid of Rubbish Susceptible Factors (GVPs), the place rubbish is repeatedly dumped.
In keeping with the discharge, Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide on August 1 directed Assistant Commissioners of all ward places of work to conduct common cleanliness inspections and guarantee excessive requirements of sanitation of their respective jurisdictions.
Underneath the drive, particular consideration shall be given to markets, main roads, footpaths, public areas and vacant plots, seashores, drains and water our bodies. All recognized GVPs shall be monitored via CCTV cameras, and strict penalties shall be imposed on folks caught dumping rubbish illegally.
The BMC has recognized areas the place rubbish repeatedly accumulates and mapped them ward-wise on Google Maps for steady monitoring. Every hotspot will endure a structured evaluation to establish the supply and sort of waste and look at shortcomings in waste assortment, transportation, manpower and equipment.
The civic physique will even interact with residents, market associations and business institutions and undertake public consciousness and behavioural change campaigns. CCTV-based monitoring and strict enforcement towards repeat offenders will kind a part of the technique, as per the discharge.
The marketing campaign shall be monitored via ward-wise data, photographic proof, digital mapping and common evaluations. Particular cleanliness drives will even be performed at markets, main roads, footpaths, public locations, seashores, drains and water our bodies.
The BMC will even strengthen measures to forestall plastic and strong waste from coming into drains, creeks and the ocean.
A evaluation assembly of assorted BMC departments was held on the municipal headquarters on August 1 following the Excessive Courtroom’s observations on strong waste administration. The assembly was attended by Municipal Commissioner Ashwini Bhide, Further Municipal Commissioners Prajakta Verma-Lavangare, Abhijit Bangar and Dr Avinash Dhakane, Joint Commissioner (Vigilance) Dr M Devender Singh, Deputy Commissioner Prashant Gaikwad and different senior civic officers.
The Bombay Excessive Courtroom appreciated the numerous enchancment in odour management on the Kanjurmarg Waste Processing Mission and acknowledged the efforts made by the BMC and its contractor.
Following the assembly, Bhide directed Deputy Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners and sanitation workers to concentrate on enhancing seen cleanliness and completely eliminating rubbish hotspots.
As per the discharge, Assistant Commissioners have been instructed to conduct common web site inspections, work intently with elected representatives and guarantee weekly evaluations of sanitation work. The BMC has additionally positioned particular emphasis on the instant removing of rubbish amassed alongside roads through the monsoon and intensive cleanliness drives at heritage websites, vacationer areas and crowded public locations.
For each GVP, officers have been directed to establish the foundation explanation for rubbish accumulation, enhance civic companies, implement engineering options, conduct consciousness campaigns, guarantee steady monitoring, set up CCTV surveillance and penalise folks dumping rubbish illegally.
Officers and workers who carry out exceptionally nicely and take the very best variety of enforcement actions will even be specifically recognised.
The civic physique has concurrently launched a drive to make Mumbai’s footpaths obstruction-free. Bhide emphasised that clear and unobstructed footpaths are a trademark of a well-planned metropolis.
Since almost 50 per cent of Mumbai’s residents journey on foot as a part of their each day commute, Assistant Commissioners have been instructed to take away encroachments from footpaths alongside main roads, particularly close to colleges, hospitals, railway stations, metro stations, bus depots and markets.
Unauthorised hawkers, unlawful ramps and different obstructions will even be eliminated to make footpaths protected and walkable for pedestrians. Bhide stated larger use of footpaths would enhance visitors circulate and assist scale back air pollution.
The BMC has additionally directed officers to deal with visitors bottlenecks on main roads and provides prime precedence to pothole complaints acquired via the Marg App.
In keeping with the civic physique, pothole complaints have decreased considerably as many metropolis roads have been transformed to cement concrete. Between June 10 and July 30, 2026, the BMC resolved 96 per cent of all pothole complaints acquired via the Marg App.
Whereas terming this a constructive achievement, Bhide directed officers to deal with each criticism significantly and guarantee immediate decision with none negligence. The remaining complaints shall be addressed on precedence.
The Commissioner additionally directed instant motion towards unauthorised constructions throughout Mumbai and reiterated that such constructions should not be regularised below any circumstances.
She stated previous possession, fee of property tax, electrical energy connections or store licences don’t legalise unauthorised constructions.
Accordingly, officers have been directed to take instant motion towards unlawful constructions throughout Mumbai and be certain that no unauthorised building is regularised.
Bhide stated sustaining seen cleanliness is a shared duty of the municipal administration and residents. The BMC has dedicated to totally implementing the Excessive Courtroom’s instructions and appealed to residents, resident associations, market committees, NGOs, elected representatives and vacationers to cooperate with the cleanliness drive.
Residents have additionally been urged to report cases of unlawful rubbish dumping and help efforts to make Mumbai cleaner, more healthy and extra stunning.
In keeping with the discharge, the BMC’s key measures embody CCTV surveillance at rubbish dumping hotspots, strict penalties for unlawful dumping, ward-wise mapping of GVPs, removing of footpath encroachments and unlawful hawkers, motion towards unauthorised constructions, measures to ease visitors bottlenecks and precedence decision of pothole complaints acquired via the Marg App. (ANI)
