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BMC has just 4 days to clean 1.6 lakh metres of nullahs [1]

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has just four days to de-silt 1.6lakh metres stretch of nullahs in the city. The civic body has the tedious task of removing over 2.64 lakh cubic metre of sludge deposited in the nullahs. Cleaning nullahs is mandatory to avoid flooding.

The civic body is yet to complete 35% of the cleaning work.

Publication Date: 
27/05/2011
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai) [2]
Tags:
Drainage [3], Municipal Corporation [4], Mumbai [5], Floods [6], Waste Disposal [7]
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