The BMC has just purchased new Recycling Machines to get rid of the tonnes of sludge that block drains across the city every year, leading to water logging when the rains hit metropolis.

The four odd machines, each costing R5 crore, have been sent to BMC wards in the city by turn. These newly acquired contraptions have the ability to store large quantities of stilt in its pouch, which is then taken to the dumping yards.

With over 2000 kilometres of roadside nullahs from where silt needs to be removed, the city needed latest machines to clear these.

Civic sources revealed, the BMC spends an average of Rs 90 crore annually, in desilting nullahs to thwart water logging. The new machines were used for removing sludge the first time last week, before first shower hit the city.

Chief Engineer, BRIMSTOWAD, LS Vhatkar, stated, “We now have these machines which will help us get the drains cleaned. The silt is directly stored in the huge machines and hence citizens will no longer have to face the problem of silt and muck being dumped on the roadside. There are plans to acquire more such machines”