BMC’s string of bad purchases in the past doesn’t seem to have deterred it from planning more expensive acquisitions. In spite of receiving flak from corporators over its costly but largely ineffective sweeping machines and pothole filling machines, the civic agency is now toying with the idea of buying a new machine which will enable transplantation of trees. They would have to cough up Rs 2 crore for the same.

Sweeping machines: The BMC had earlier spent Rs 3 crore on 20 sweeping machines to clean major roads in south Mumbai and near the airport, but the project was largely panned, and drew criticism from the municipal chief auditor