If the nullahs overflow this monsoon, blame the BMC’s Vigilance Department instead of Storm Water Drains. The department is responsible for checking desilting of major nullahs but personnel are burdened with the road scam enquiry, and so have not been able to make more than one visit to the sites as against the usual 2-3. But the BMC maintains that even if the officials are not visiting the site, some are posted on weigh bridges — a platform where the silt is weighed — and dumping sites. These are the two spots where irregularities happen and the BMC is focusing on those.

The visits are to check if work is being done as per the terms of their contract. Pic/Sameer Markande