Just as 1,600 metric tons of unexploded ordnance was disposed by the Southern Command of this Indian Army to help civilian governments in Mumbai and a lot of different locations, a defence discharge said on Thursday.

In Mumbai alone, over 800 heaps of Unidentified Explosive Objects (UXO) with volatile content of more than 2 million pound of RDX/ / TNT was disposed .

Operation’Visphotak Mukt Bandargah’ has been performed with the Army in the management of this Defence Ministry to guarantee the security of individuals living in these regions, ” the release said.

The ordnance had”possibly been gathered unintentionally by a few factories and steel garbage yards” within the last couple of years in several different locations in Mumbai, Gujarat, Kanpur, Jaipur and Jodhpur, ” the release said.

A distinctive bomb-disposal Team from the Central Ammunition Depot, Pulgaon performed”questionnaire, segregation and disposal” of all unexploded ordnance.

At a similar surgery at Thiruvallur district of Tamil Nadu at March 2021, the Southern Command had firmly discarded unexploded ordnance, ” the discharge advised.