BMC's excavators struggle to manoeuvre around the boulders during the clean-up drive

Cleaning Mumbai's filthy beaches is hard enough, but now Mahim residents and volunteers also face an obstacle course formed by large boulders that keep washing ashore from the coast. The boulders were dumped near the coastline by the Public Works Department (PWD) to prevent soil erosion. But many rocks are yet to be installed after the PWD's machinery stopped working a month ago.