The ambitious plan for rainwater harvesting in civic schools seems to have gone down the drain. A member of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) education committee has revealed the dismal situation with visual proof, of how areas prepared for rainwater harvesting have turned into places to dump garbage. A letter has been written to the authorities about this because as much as '2 lakh was spent per project. While two civic schools were inspected, the member wants all such schools reviewed. BMC schools built or reconstructed after 2007 had provisions for rainwater harvesting. Other than the required arrangement of pipes for this from the roof of the building, this included constructing a sump on the ground floor. But visits to two civic schools have shown how these ground floor sumps have turned into garbage dumps.

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