Errant contractors
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s ambitious plans to monitor road contractors’ work quality may not take off soon. The BMC had invited tenders worth Rs 120 crore to repair potholes and asked contractors to install sensors and GPS devices on their machinery to enable the civic body to monitor quality. BMC made it compulsory for contractors [...] Continue Reading »
A team of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) civic engineers is to conduct an audit of the pothole-filling work being carried out on city roads. The decision has been taken after 1,738 potholes were reassigned or reopened for filling. The BMC claimed that the cold-mix technology used to fill potholes is effective enough. However, recent heavy [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been strictly monitoring the reinstatement of roads ahead of Ganpati festival. BMC has been regularly cracking the whip on contractors in charge of pothole-filling work and has collected fines total of Rs 1.22 crore so far. Contractors under the civic body’s road department, its ward level and other related departments [...] Continue Reading »
In order to tighten its grip over errant contractors, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to double the fine imposed on them if they fail to fill potholes in the stipulated time limit of 48 hours. Moreover, the civic body has also announced that five complaints against a contractor will lead to termination of [...] Continue Reading »
Garbage issues are creating a major problem for the city of Mumbai. Mayor Sunil Prabhu put the blame on the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) at a civic general body meeting on Monday for the problems faced by citizens due to garbage dumping. The mayor expressed his views that contingency plan must be made for garbage [...] Continue Reading »
In Mumbai, motorists have been plagued by the bad roads, with traffic being delayed and vehicles damaged. People have faced health problems, too, with back ailments on the rise. Critics said the BMC chief was surrendering to fate by blaming the rains for poor pothole repairs. They said the city is being left to the [...] Continue Reading »
