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Mumbai Clears 82% of Pre-Monsoon Desilting as Mithi River Work Trails

AI-driven oversight is being deployed with extra manpower to complete pre-monsoon clearing during an ongoing anti-corruption probe.

Each year before monsoon, the BMC’s stormwater drainage department undertakes the desilting of major drains in the city.(Photo by Satish Bate/ Hindustan Times) (Hindustan Times)
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Overview

  • The BMC has removed 7.96 lakh metric tonnes of silt, reaching 82.31% of its 9.68 lakh tonne target for pre-monsoon desilting of major and minor drains.
  • Efforts on the Mithi River have reached 61.85% with 1.32 lakh tonnes cleared, hampered by early May rains and a Rs65 crore fraud investigation by the Economic Offences Wing.
  • An AI-powered dashboard now tracks silt removal in real time by linking truck number plates to weights and timestamps to flag irregularities.
  • Over Rs3 crore has been recovered from contractors penalized for malpractice, and mandatory 30-second videos and CCTV footage document every stage of desilting.
  • The civic body has deployed additional machinery and labour and plans to sustain desilting operations through and after the monsoon to bolster Mumbai’s flood defences.