Couple of days ago, South Mumbai’s famous Marine Drive was covered with filth and garbage owing to the high tide. When the high tide receded, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials and workers cleared the garbage in three and a half hours. The civic officials and safai workers managed to pick up more than 200 metric tonne waste.
On Saturday, around 1:00 pm, the high tide of 4.96 metre was recorded in the financial capital. When the waves were hitting the streets connected to the Chowpatty, waste was also being thrown on the street.
Along with Marine Lines, 12 metric tonne waste was also found at Girgaon Chowpatty. On Friday, around 9 metric tonne waste was picked up from both Marine Lines and Girgaon Chowpatty.
Around 20 safai workers of A/Ward cleaned up Marine Drive while C/Ward’s 35 safai workers cleaned up Girgaon Chowpatty. In total, 55 safai workers cleaned up the beach, confirmed BMC’s A/Ward’s assistant commissioner Kiran Dighavkar and C/Ward’s assistant commissioner Sunil Sardar.
Likewise, 10 metric tonne waste was collected from Dadar Chowpatty where 20 safai workers helped to clean up the beach, said G/North ward’s assistant commissioner Ashok Khairnar. Around 110 metric tonne waste was found at Juhu-Chowpatty that was cleaned up with the help of 150 safai workers, said K/West ward’s assistant commissioner Prashant Gaikwad.
Other beaches such as Worli Sea-Face, Gorai, Manori Aksa, Chimbai were also cleaned up in less than four hours.
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