India, May 27 -- Five days ahead of the May 31 deadline to complete all desilting work in the city, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) dashboard on Tuesday showed that desilting of the 18-kilometre-long Mithi river was only 62.26% complete.

But members of the BMC's standing committee who inspected the ongoing desilting work on Monday said even this claim was doubtful. "There isn't enough machinery or labourers on ground to clean the Mithi River. The shifting of some residents along the river is also pending," said Ashraf Azmi, Congress group leader in the BMC.

BMC officials said the Mithi desilting scam, wherein five people including two contractors engaged for desilting the river were arrested in December 2025 on charges of...