Mumbai News: BMC disallows any digging of concrete roads for a year

As a concrete solution to make the city pothole-free, the BMC has modified the guidelines for digging trenches to lay the utility lines. It has been said that no such digging would be allowed on newly built concrete roads in the first year unless there is an urgency. Suggestions and objections to the guidelines have been invited in the next seven days.

The city has a 2,000km road network out of which half is concretised. The BMC has decided to concretise the entire network in the next 30 months. Officials said that reinstatement works after trenching are not undertaken properly, hence damaging the top layer of the road.

Suggestions and objections to the guidelines can be sent to dyche.rdplg@mcgm.gov.in.

BMC undertakes concretisation of Mumbai roads

To make the city pothole-free, the BMC has undertaken a concretisation program of roads across the city. As part of the initiative, the civic authorities invited a tender in the Malad and Kandivali areas on May 19. The estimated cost of the work is around Rs155.59 crore and the work will start post-monsoon.

The city has a network of around 2,000km of roads, out of which, around 1,000km have been concretised. The BMC has decided to concretise all the roads to make them pothole-free in the next two and half years. Accordingly, the BMC will construct 397km of roads at a cost of Rs 6,080 crore this year, which is considered the biggest-ever contract for road work.