Marshalls are set to return in a new avatar as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has decided to rechristen them as nuisance detectors. The civic body will give them swanky uniforms, like that of security guards, with ID cards that will have a unique code number in a bid to deter fakes. The NDs will be assigned to look after instances of littering, spitting, urinating in public and other civic complaints.

Additional Municipal Commissioner Suresh Kakani, who heads the solid waste management department, confirmed the development and told mid-day, “We have received applications from 19 agencies. Now these private staff will be named nuisance detectors.”