Five years after famous gastroenterologist Dr Deepak Amrapurkar's death, the BMC has decided to put safety grills on all the manholes in the city, barely a week before the monsoon. Until now, only manholes at flooding spots were shielded. 

The move follows a meeting the chief minister held with the civic chief recently. City politicians and activists, however, questioned why it took the civic body five years to do what should have been done after the tragic death of renowned Dr Amrapurkar. Samajwadi Party MLA Rais Shaikh asked if the current move was in view of the upcoming BMC polls.