Mumbai: The 100 heroes who restored Queen’s necklace while you slept

More than 100 sweepers of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), cleaned up the Marine Drive area overnight from 11.30 pm to 8 am. The collected garbage included a significant amount of food wrappers, water bottles, bags, shoes, slippers and other items. From the collected garbage, around five jeeps filled up with shoes, slippers, and other recyclable items will be sent for recycling instead of being sent to the dumping ground.

The collected garbage included food wrappers, water bottles, bags, shoes, and slippers. Pic/Kirti Surve Parade

Thousands of cricket fans were gathered at Marine Drive on Thursday to celebrate team India's victory parade of the T-20 Cricket World Cup 2024. There was a stampede-like situation at one point. After the crowd dispersed wastages like bottles, shoes, and sandals were all over the stretch. The team of 100 workers of Solid Waste Management of BMC worked overnight to clean the area so that morning walkers could use it. They collected two large dumpers and five small jeeps of waste from the area.

A worker continues to clear the trash in the morning

"Workers from the Solid Waste Management Department of the A Ward and volunteers from various organisations participated in this operation. The sweeping began around 11.30 pm and continued until 8 am. A compactor and a dumper were used to collect the garbage," said a BMC official.