BMC has imposed penalties totalling ₹9.25 crore on contractors engaged in pre-monsoon drain-cleaning works after its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based monitoring system detected multiple irregularities in execution.
The penalty amount is being recovered from the contractors pending bills, civic officials said on Saturday. The system flagged several violations, including reuse of images, failure to upload mandatory unloading videos, mismatches between registered vehicles and work codes, missing photographs, and irregularities during silt transportation and disposal. Physical inspections also revealed inadequate deployment of machinery and manpower, non-provision of safety gear to workers, improper disposal of excavated silt and delays in completing work as per schedule