Clean-up drive meets deadline

The BMC took up work at Kasaiwada in Kurla, the difficult Lal Dongar in Chembur and the Nageshwari Tekri at Sewri. Ward officer S Subramanium F-south said his staff cleared five tekris in his ward. The clean-up is still on at Nageshwari Tekri. 8220;Over 20,000 residents have been provided with plastic dustbins to dispose their garbage,8221; he informed. His ward has taken the responsibility of 53 slum colonies and also the Mumbai Port Trust land which has not been cleared for the past two to three years.

Over 87 trucks of garbage were cleared from the hutments at Indira Nagar on MPT land at Sewree.

At Azad Nagar at Dharavi, the corporation had to convince members of a housing society to break their compound wall to clear the garbage on the adjoining slums.

At the Mahim-Sion Link road, garbage uncleared for three years was cleared from BMRDA land.

Donkeys were used along with trucks to transport the garbage.