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Mumbai: Dust-spewing litter-picker fined after Mid-Day report
Updated On: 04 December, 2025 06:53 AM IST | Mumbai | Ranjeet Jadhav
BMC fines contractor Rs 20K per day after mid-day reports machine blowing dust into city’s polluted air; the contractor is responsible for daily cleaning of the highway’s main and service roads using mechanical brooming
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Smoke belches from a litter-picker machine on a service road along the Eastern Express Highway in Vikhroli East on November 27. PIC/Chinmay Joshi
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Taking serious note of mid-day’s report on a vehicle-mounted litter-picking machine releasing dust and worsening pollution on the Eastern Express Highway, the BMC has issued a notice to the contractor and imposed a Rs 20,000 fine.
Kiran Dighavkar, deputy municipal commissioner of the Solid Waste Management Department, said, “We have issued a notice to contractor Sumit Facilities Ltd, directing them to immediately explain why the litter-picker machine was releasing dust into the air while cleaning the main and service roads of the Eastern Express Highway in S ward. A penalty of Rs 20,000 per day has been imposed for two days under Clause 8 of the contract, which specifies fines for lapses and defaults. Further action will be taken under BMC’s air pollution rules if such violations continue.”
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