The BMC has spent around Rs 1,000 crore in the past 10 years on desilting of major and minor nullahs in the city as well as Mithi River, revealed a response to a Right to Information (RTI) query filed by a BJP MLA. The party slammed the civic body saying public money has gone down in drains as flooding and waterlogging is still abundant.

BJP MLA Ameet Satam has also rubbished the civic body’s claims that 104% desilting work was done before monsoon. As per the RTI information, Rs 460.03 crore was spent on desilting major nullahs, Rs 140.08 crore on Mithi River, and Rs 338.62 crore on minor nullahs. BMC has also paid Rs 26 crore to Railways for desilting drains under its jurisdiction. The length of major nullahs in the city is around 248kms, that of minor nullahs is about 421kms.