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Silt removal contractors take corporation for ride The BMC's ambitious plan to desilt all the city's nullahs may come to naught. An alleged officialcontractor nexus is ensuring that instead of silt, debris from private sites is dumped at the dumping ground. On Thursday, Rajendra Lad, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena corporator from Chembur caught nine trucks offloading debris instead of silt at the Deonar dumping ground. "This has been going on since April 1 when the desilting work started. Contractors do not clean nullahs. They rather pick up debris from construction sites for a fee and dump it at the dumping yard in the name of silt. They also receive payment for the silt that is recorded as having been cleared from the nullahs,'' he said. This year the BMC has awarded a Rs 18-crore contract for desilting nullahs before the monsoon. Previously nullahs were desilted in phases, but since 26/7, nullahs are cleaned completely before the monsoon and regularly cleaned during the monsoon. That debris is being dumped instead of silt also reveals a complete lack of supervision on the nature of refuse being brought to the dumps. The BMC had installed close circuit cameras to prevent such misuse. However, the cameras are yet to become functional. "We have been told that they will be functional from Friday,'' said Lad. R A Rajeev, additional municipal commissioner in charge of solid waste management, said he had not received any information on the alleged fraud but said he would take action. Last month, the administration had caught 22 trucks illegally dumping debris at the dump. All the staff concerned were transferred, he said. toireporter@timesgroup.com RAISING A STINK: BMC's site engineers who inspected the Deonar dumping ground found that slum children were segregating the garbage, security guards on duty were missing, garbage was being illegally dumped on mangroves, and unauthorised ragpickers and cattle had free entry into the ground due to the lack of a compound wall URL : http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JTS8yMDA3LzA0LzEzI0FyMDA5MDM=&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom |
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