While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) lectures citizens on waste segregation and responsible trash management, a resident of Andheri West captured a video showing garbage being dumped from a dry-waste tempo into the Mogra Nullah near the Lokhandwala back road on Monday. In the video, a worker can be clearly seen throwing bags of waste over the bridge railing into the water.

Locals livid

The Lokhandwala Oshiwara Citizen Association (LOCA) posted a video on Instagram where it said, “BMC, this is NOT how dry waste is supposed to be handled. A BMC dry waste tempo was just caught dumping collected garbage straight off the bridge onto Lokhandwala back road. Workers are casually throwing bags over the railing into the water/mud below like it's an open dumping ground. This is the same corporation that lectures citizens about segregation and Swachh Bharat while its own vehicles treat public spaces and water bodies like a free landfill. Tagging you, @my_bmc, this is unacceptable, illegal, and a complete failure of basic civic responsibility. Fix this. Take action. Stop treating Mumbai like a dump yard.” Dhaval Shah from LOCA said that the authorities should take action against those responsible.