Photos: Cleaning big in Mumbai's narrow lanes
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun a special drive to clean up narrow lanes in the Grant Road area
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun a special drive to clean up narrow lanes in the Grant Road area of Mumbai. D ward's solid waste management (SWM) department is working to clean up the narrow lanes between two buildings. During this campaign which is estimated to go on till end of December, approximately 1000 house lanes will be cleaned up by the workers. HT photographer Satish Bate visited one of these sites last week.
Published on Nov 30, 2022 05:04 PM IST 9 Photos
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A Solid Waste Management (SWM) team worker of the D ward seen at work during the special cleanliness drive in Mumbai, on November 25. The drive is being conducted in lanes between cessed buildings. Cessed buildings are old or dilapidated mainly located in the city division of the BMC.(Satish Bate / HT Photo)
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A worker in a lane during the special cleanliness drive in Mumbai, on November 25. Approximately 1000 house gullies/ lanes will be cleaned up by the SWM employees of the D ward in the coming few weeks.(Satish Bate / HT Photo)
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“As per the policy, BMC has to clean these lanes. We call them 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,” Shrikant Rathod, assistant engineer, SWM. D ward told HT.(Satish Bate / HT Photo)
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Birju, 58, during the special cleanliness drive in Mumbai, on November 25. On a daily average, the SWM workers collect about five metric tonnes of waste.(Satish Bate / HT Photo)
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