Framework for new slum-cleaning scheme discussed at BMC meet
A month after the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decided to replace the controversial Dattak Vasti Yojana — aimed at keeping slum areas clean — with the Swacha Mumbai Prabodhan Abhiyaan, a framework for the new scheme was discussed at the BMC standing committee meeting on Wednesday. The new scheme, which focuses on keeping slum areas clean, incorporated the name ‘Prabodhan’ after ‘Prabhodhankar’, the pen name of former Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray’s father. The Dattak Vasti Yojana was scrapped after it came under the scanner for alleged misappropriation of funds and monopoly by politicians.