Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar inspects a Metro III site at Santacruz on Wednesday

Mayor Vishwanath Mahadeshwar may rank as the first citizen in Mumbai, but he has failed the test of basic civic awareness. During an inspection of nullahs in Santacruz. Yesterday, it became clear that the Mayor had failed to do his homework when he blamed the MMRDA for clogging the drainage lines with debris from the Metro III work. Bizarrely, even after spending close to half an hour at two of the Metro sites, he didn't seem to realise that it was the MMRC that was building Metro III, and not MMRDA.