We Bombayites are not as civic minded as we should be. That is a fact. If you disagree, walk out to the street and just look around. Yes we are better than other parts of the country, but if we want to be the next Shanghai or Singapore, then we got a long way to go.

As if the regular garbage wasnt enough, we know have the scenario of construction debris being dumped in the middle of roads. Construction sites generate tonnes of debris which is carted away by truckloads.

The city maintains dumps outside the city limits but that means a lot of time and fuel wasted in going all the way to the dump and back. So what does the truck driver do ?

He drives to a lonely deserted road, dumps his truckload and scoots.

According to the BMC, around 10,000 metric tonnes of debris is officially generated in Mumbai every day.

Of that, around half is dumped on deserted roads, officials say. Rajeev said they plan to install two cameras at every such location. “The offenders will be fined Rs 20,000. [link]

If this aint crazy, then I don’t know what is.

Thankfully the city is planning on setting up cameras to monitor such stretches of road. But the pessimist in me thinks, that its only a matter of time till someone first covers the camera, then dumps and scoots. What say you ??