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BMC Steps Up Azad Maidan Cleanup With 1,000 Staff, 450 Toilets, 25 Water Tankers

BMC frames the operation as continuous service provision to protect public health at the protest site.

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.