Mumbai: So busy in city’s ‘Swachhta’ drive, MBMC ignores its own dirty toilet

Bhayandar: Practice what you preach. Well, this clearly does seem to apply on officials in the Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC).

On the one hand, the civic administration is harping about the Swacch Bharat Mission (SBM) — a primary part of which focuses on day-to-day hygiene and clean toilets, but on the other its own building leads the worst example of filthy and choked urinals for days altogether.

The urinal in question (see pic) is inside one of the posh chambers in the Citizen Facility Center (CFC) located in the main administrative building of the civic administration in Bhayandar (west). What is more shocking is the fact that the chamber is presently used by a team of senior sanitation inspectors and personnel from the private agency who are deputed to monitor activities and day-to-day statistics related to the ongoing ‘Swachhta’ survey.

According to CFC staffers they have been complaining about the filthy toilet, but no action has been taken by the sanitation staffers. It should be noted that the civic administration is already under scanner for allegedly manipulating status of complaints that are received on the ‘Swachhta’ (cleanliness) App, a centrally monitored pan India mobile tool introduced by the ministry of urban development (MoUD). Interestingly the complaint in context to the unclean toilets in MBMC’s own premises had been uploaded on the app by an active user.