The audit further revealed that eight out of 20 municipal corporations could not spend 78 per cent of their funds reserved for the purchase of specialised fire appliances and fire vehicles.The fire departments in eight cities of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, were ill-equipped, suffered from shortage of key officers, and lacked basic infrastructure to fight fire situations in buildings,

The fire departments in eight extruder replacement partss Manufacturers cities of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, were ill-equipped, suffered from shortage of key officers, and lacked basic infrastructure to fight fire situations in buildings, petrol pumps and firecracker shops operating without proper permission from the respective departments; so revealed a performance audit of prevention and control of fire between 2010 and 2015 by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India

Only `155 crore (22 per cent) out of the total `703 crore set aside was spent by fire departments of eight municipal corporations.Fire-fighting departments of various municipal corporations are led by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’ urban development department.The eight municipal corporations include those of Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Nashik, Pune, Aurangabad, Amravati and Nagpur. Worse still, Mumbai had the highest unspent balance of `430 crore in the said period