With broad perspective, D ward out to clean narrow lanes

Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started a special drive to clean up narrow lanes between the buildings in the Grant Road area

Mumbai The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started a special drive to clean up narrow lanes between the buildings in the Grant Road area. D ward’s solid waste management (SWM) department has started this drive to clean up the narrow lanes between two buildings.

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These lanes are located between cessed buildings. Cessed buildings are old or dilapidated mainly located in the city division of BMC and cleanliness of the lanes between the buildings are primarily the responsibility of the civic body. During this campaign, approximately 1000 house gullies / lanes will be cleaned up by the SWM employees of the D ward in the coming few weeks. Since the lanes are narrow, only one person can enter the lane at a time. Workers were seen working between the lanes wearing masks and using hand tools to remove the garbage.

Shrikant Rathod, assistant engineer, SWM, D ward said, “These buildings are old buildings called cessed buildings and have extremely narrow lanes between them. As per the policy, BMC has to clean these lanes. We call these lanes House Gullies and there are dedicated house gully cleaners in all parts of the ward. However, this time we have got all 146 house gully cleaners from the ward together to clean these lanes. We are also creating awareness in these buildings along with the clean-up.”

Bharat Torne, chief engineer of SWM said, “The clean-up is part of our special drive started by Mumbai’s guardian minister. The drive called Majhi Mumbai, Swachh Mumbai is taken up across Mumbai. These lanes are mainly located in the B, C and D ward of Mumbai and employees have taken up special drive to clean up these lanes.”