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Washing your car on a public road? Pay Rs. 1,000 as fine!

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Some car owners from my lane were in for a rude shock on Saturday morning. As with most people in Mumbai (and some other cities), a dedicated car wash chap was cleaning their cars, cars that were parked in the residential lane. This is a practice that has been in place for a couple of decades.

At about 0700 hours, BMC’s "clean up marshalls" called them down one by one and fined them Rs. 1,000 (with receipt) for washing their cars on a public road. Cars that were being washed inside a building compound (e.g. mine) were NOT fined.

An old article on the same:

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These cleanliness inspectors are part of the BMC’s Clean-up Mumbai Campaign. They will be on the streets catching and fining citizens if they’re found littering or dirtying Mumbai. The initiative was flagged off on Thursday at the BMC headquarters.

City’s Mayor, Shubha Raul says, “It is being done only to make Mumbai clean, hygienic and more environment friendly. Those who are breaking the rules will be penalised.”

Spitting and urinating on Mumbai streets will attract a fine of 200 rupees. The fine amount gets steeper for cleaning cars on the road. People flouting this law will be fined a hefty 1000 rupees.

As our area car wash guy later commented, "dhaanda khalaas (end of my business)".

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