The furrowed dividers meant to enhance the beauty of the city by becoming sowing ground for trees and plants have been turned into dumping trenches by advertisers who put up banners along them, as citizens of suburban Andheri have brought to the notice of the BMC. You may have noticed that the foliage planted in road dividers is drying up or absent, thanks to the negligence and self-serving ways of the advertisers, activists and residents of Andheri allege. Advertisers are supposed to grow and maintain plants in dividers by adding soil and regularly watering them. But they are filling the dividers with construction debris and waste, locals said. Further, the layer of soil lining the dividers is very thin, they added. Despite complaints to the BMC, which is responsible for monitoring the maintenance activity undertaken byu00a0advertisers, no action has been taken.u00a0

Soiling the city: A barren road divider in Andheri full of rubble and trashu00a0