Mumbai : The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is likely to spend about Rs 35 crore on construction, repair and maintenance work of Mumbai’s footpaths, subways, foot over bridges, flyovers and bridges constructed over nullahs and rivers across the city and its suburbs in the next 2 years.
Three separate proposals have been tabled before the BMC’s standing committee, Rs 19 crore will be spent for the areas falling under the Mumbai city limits and Rs 16.22 crore will be spent on Mumbai’s suburbs. This kind of a project was last taken up in 2012 and was concluded in 2014, but was not renewed.
The municipal corporation will also carry out geological testing surveys to check the feasibility of new proposed bridges.
This proposal follows the BMC’s initiative to repair roads by May this year, that costs the civic body Rs 2,000 crore. It was SVR Srinivas, additional municipal commissioner, who had come out with the master plan for road improvement works for the entire city at the beginning of financial year 2012-13. The BMC completed repair work on 600 roads in the city before the monsoon set in.
