Taking note of mid-day’s report on how the contractor working on the Motagaon-Mankoli bridge over Ulhas river was dumping debris into the river, the MMRDA commissioner has ordered an enquiry into it. Metropolitan Commissioner SVR Srinivas said, “I have ordered the officials concerned to enquire into the same and take action against those responsible.”

On Tuesday mid-day had reported how a senior photographer of this paper had on April 30 spotted workers dumping concrete chunks, construction material and debris into the already polluted river. The photographer, Satej Shinde, took pictures and videos where the workers can be shown throwing waste material into the river.