India, April 17 -- What was once a garbage-strewn corner teeming with mosquitoes in Parel Village has suddenly seen a miraculous transformation: it is now a clean, usable public space where residents gather to sit on benches and engage in idle chatter. The change is part of a focused intervention by F South ward's solid waste management (SWM) department, which has begun reclaiming inner lanes that have long been used for indiscriminate garbage dumping.

The ward's officials identified 67 such chronic dumping spots across the Parel-Sewri belt. Of these, five locations-Kuber Gully, Parmanand Wadi, Kohinoor Mill Chawl at Dahiwalkar Buwa Marg, Income Tax Lane near Jeejeebhoy Lane in Parel, and Ganesh Nagar near Sewri Market-have already been ...