It is for the first time that the civic authority would be using the collector’s plot for the purpose.
Faced with a severe shortage of dumping space for the silt extracted from its nullah-cleaning work, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now approached the Mumbai suburban district collector, seeking his permission to utilise an open plot near the Madh-Aksa island for the same.
As it is for the first time that the civic authority would be using the collector’s plot for the purpose, it plans to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras to obviate any possible allegations of debris being dumped along with silt. The CCTV cameras will keep a record of the dumping of silt by the contractor.
Further, the BMC’s stormwater drains department too wants to keep an eye over the silt being removed and see how much of it is transported to the dumping ground at Madh-Aksa. Hence, the plan to continuously record the entire dumping process with CCTV cameras, to be installed at the cost of Rs1.62 crore for two years.
Having already given the nullah-cleaning contract for 2011-12 and 2012-13 at the cost of Rs156 crore, the civic body plans to spend Rs75 crore for the cleaning of drains across the city. The contractor responsible for the nullah-cleaning work is also expected to install four digital CCTV cameras apart from having all the necessary machineries, including poclain machine, JCB machines and bulldozers to level the ground post-dumping of the silt to make way for better transportation.
While the authorities have given the two-year contract for the CCTV cameras worth Rs1.62 crore, the yearly cost runs into only about Rs81 lakh. Since the nullah-cleaning work is usually taken up only for three-four months, the CCTV cameras will be lying without use for the rest of the year, said a civic official, adding that it was a clear case of waste of money.
Until now, silt from across the suburbs and the city areas was being dumped at the Deonar and the Kanjurmarg dumping grounds.
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