Overview
- The corporation said more than 1,000 sanitation workers are on three shifts, with over 400 on duty overnight from 10 pm to 6 am.
- About 100 additional portable units took toilet capacity to roughly 450 seats, with suction and jet-spray cleaning carried out regularly.
- Solid waste teams used skid-steer loaders and compactors, washed roads after removal, and distributed 2,000 plastic bags with bins for on-site collection.
- Support services include 25 water tankers, a medical unit that treated around 4,000 people on September 1, and 35 referrals to nearby hospitals.
- Since August 29, the BMC reports clearing 1.01 lakh kg of waste around Azad Maidan, with pest-control spraying and fumigation under way and a tower of 40 floodlights installed by the fire brigade.