Days after announcing to form 48 inspection teams during Christmas and New Year festivities, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to increase its deployment of marshals across all 24 administrative wards in the city.
The civic body has announced to increase the marshals from 700 to an unspecified number to control crowds as well as monitor mask violations in public places.
This comes after BMC booked 15,144 people on December 25 and 26 for not wearing masks at public places, and collected ₹30.28 lakh in fines.
Therefore, a majority of these marshals will be deployed at beaches and prominent promenades in Mumbai on December 31 and January 1. These include places where heavy human traffic is witnessed during the festive holidays.
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The SWM department is responsible for appointing marshals and penalising people for not covering their faces.
The official said that marshals will be allotted shifts for this weekend so that they can work at night as well.
According to data, the most number of violators (2,429) were fined in the A ward that includes the Marine Drive promenade, followed by 670 violators at H/West ward that covers the Bandra area.
A senior civic official said most of the people fined during the festive weekend were either revellers or tourists in Bandra, Marine Drive and Girgaon Chowpatty.
Official also stated that the ward officials have been instructed to remain vigilant and take necessary action whenever there is any breach of conduct.
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