The latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has validated a mid-day investigation on the mismanagement in construction of pumping stations in Mumbai. The mid-day investigation (‘Contractor’s shoddy job on pumping stations is putting Mumbai at risk’, November 11), exposed the mismanagement in construction of three crucial pumping stations — Lovegrove, Cleveland Bunder and Haji Ali — and had highlighted their poor planning, design and construction.

It had exposed how the projects had countless anomalies and how the contractor sometimes used sub-standard material, often sourced from unlisted suppliers, and violated many tender conditions, thereby not only causing losses to the civic exchequer, but also putting lives at risk.