Ahead of civic polls, BMC to launch two-day cleaning drive over 10k polling stations

Gearing up for the civic polls, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) Solid Waste Management (SWM) department on Wednesday is set to kick off a special cleanliness drive across the city’s polling stations. The two-day drive will entail deployment of sweepers, pink army teams, dustbins for segregated waste as well as toilets across the city’s 10,231 polling stations.

The city, along with 28 other municipal corporations, is poised to go to polls on January 15 with voting process slated between 7.30 am to 5.30 pm.

To ensure hygiene, senior officials have directed the assistant engineer of SWM department to install two separate dustbins at ward levels for wet and dry waste across all the polling locations. According to officials, over 4,000 toilets will be deployed across the city with each toilet pegged to be cleaned at regular intervals. Furthermore, the civic body will also press the teams of pink army cleaners and sweepers at each station.