India, Dec. 10 -- Following multiple complaints about corruption and large-scale irregularities in the city's slum sanitation and garbage collection system, the Maharashtra government on Tuesday announced that it would conduct an audit of Mumbai's erstwhile Dattak Vasti Yojana (DVY) or Slum Adoption Scheme. The DVY, launched years ago to improve cleanliness in informal settlements through community participation, was restructured in 2013 and brought under the banner of the Swachh Mumbai Prabodhan Abhiyan (SMPA).

The move for an audit came after Mumbai BJP president and MLA Ameet Satam raised the issue during a discussion in the legislative assembly, claiming that the scheme had been systematically diluted and exploited. Satam argued that...