The Bombay High Court has today directed the Maharashtra government to file a reply to a PIL seeking that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits, hand sanitisers, face masks etc seized by authorities be released and given to doctors and health care workers.<br />'' <br />'' Justice BP Colabawalla directed the state's counsel to file the reply by May 11.The court was hearing a PIL filed by Mohan Joshi, general secretary of Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee.<br />'' <br />'' In another matter related to safety equipment in view of the outbreak, Justice Colabawalla accepted an undertaking by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) that its private contractors would follow directives on providing face masks, washing facilities to its 4,000 contractual 'safai karmacharis'.<br />''<br />'' He was hearing a plea filed by 'Kachra Vahtuk Shramik Sangh', a group of 4000 private solitary workers doing civic assignments on a contract basis.The petitioners, earlier, through their counsel told HC they go door to door collecting waste, and that the BMC gives them only one face mask and one pair of gloves for a month.<br />