Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will use lottery system to select starred hotels and first-class restaurants to conduct cleanliness audit and inspection following complaints by some hotel owners that the sleuths conduct inspection as per their discretion.

Every Saturday, inspectors designated at each of 24 wards would conduct a lottery on random sampling method and pick names of hotels and restaurants where checks have to be conducted, without informing their owners, the BMC stated in a release today.