Is the Mithi clean-up ending up choking the river? The silt that is being removed during the restoration work to widen and deepen the river seems to have ended up further narrowing the water body. The silt, instead of being carted away for disposal, is being piled on the river banks itself, the MNS has pointed out in a letter to BMC.

MNS has raised concern over the narrowing of the river in at Saki Naka. Rohan Sawant, head of MNS's Andheri assembly constituency, has written a letter to the BMC administration asking for a detailed probe into the work order issued to the contractor, Skyway. A BMC official attached to the storm water drain (SWD) department has denied that there is any problem. “There is no merit in the complaint,” the official stated in his reply to a query on the Mithi river issue.