Overview
- The BMC standing committee recommended registering an FIR and directed administrative action against SBD Infratech for failing to carry out Zone 5 desilting work and the civic body handed leftover work to Ranuja Dev Corporation at about ₹12.70 crore.
- BMC dashboards reported slow progress by May 27 with the 18 km Mithi river about 62.26% complete and Zone 5 at roughly 68.81%, well below the city average for other drains.
- Corporators who inspected sites on May 25–27 found little machinery or labour, missing engineers on location, and large piles of silt dumped at drain edges that risk being washed back in rain.
- Retaining walls are finished along 17 km of the 18 km Mithi but a 400 metre stretch remains stalled by roughly 500 slum tenements whose rehabilitation will not finish before the monsoon.
- Officials say a December desilting scam and weak bidder interest forced awards to less experienced firms this season and left gaps in logistics such as approved dumping plots and GPS‑enabled dumpers, increasing the risk of waterlogging if work is not completed by the revised June 10 deadline.