After mid-day exposed how the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) failed to abide by its own pollution-mitigation regulations by allowing debris to pile up on a 3-km stretch at Kandivli West, the civic body immediately swung into action, washing the areas where dust had gathered.

The BMC recently started carrying out footpath and road-related work on the stretch from Mahavir Nagar to Charkop. Residents, who are already dealing with narrow roads, expected the civic body to at least take measures to control the dust as the corporation itself had, on October 28, issued guidelines to all construction sites.