Mumbai: BMC seizes three debris dumpers for littering roads

In a letter dated October 25, the civic body directed the project manager to immediately stop transportation of debris through Ward A, until necessary arrangements were made. The letter also highlighted that the dumpers carrying the debris were not covered with tarpaulin, which is mandatory as per the NOC from the civic body. In addition, the municipal sweepers refused to clean the mud on the roads. They claiming that this was an everyday affair and their job was only to sweep the roads, not to clean the muck off them.

The 33.5 km stretch will be the first underground Metro corridor and is expected to generate 54 lakh cubic metres of muck, according to the Environment Impact Assessment Report.

Activists and local residents had earlier alleged that the authority was illegally dumping muck on a low-lying open plot, which comes under the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ-2) and No-Development Zone (NDZ), in Anik. The debris from Metro III (Colaba-Bandra-Seepz) construction site is currently ferried as far as 50 km away and dumped in the abandoned quarries in Raigad and Thane. In September, the first tunnel of the 33.5-km Colaba-Bandra-Seepz (Metro-3 line) route was completed.