Multiple hand-wash stations were opened across Vasai-Virar-Nalasopara during the pandemic at a great expense by the VVCMC but these facilities have been encroached on by hawkers. All thanks to civic officials who have turned a blind eye to these encroachments. mid-day discovered that just outside Nalasopara railway station in the west, a sugarcane juice centre has been operating from a hand-wash station for the past month. All the taps there are missing too. The hand-wash station is also in proximity to an ST bus depot.

Abdul Bhai, owner of the juice centre