Even as it undertakes a beautification project by painting facades and lighting flyovers, there are wires and fibre optic cables all over the city. Civic activists have slammed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for the dumping of wires and fibre optic cables. They have called for a policy to manage the scores of wires dumped near flyovers or left hanging all over the city, thereby defacing it.

According to civic records, in the late 1990s, the BMC issued orders to lay all of the city’s cables underground. But no specific policy was prepared for TV, mobile and internet broadband cables which dominate the city’s expanse, cited a report in this paper.