Potholes on Mumbai roads
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 »
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally taken steps to get a team of independent experts to conduct a technical audit of pothole repairs of Mumbai roads. The audit is to start from next week and it will examine why the BMC had failed to rid roads of potholes this monsoon despite introducing cold-mix technology [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now promised to repair 164 pock-marked locations in the next four days. Fifty-three of these patches are in the island city, 85 in the western suburbs and 26 in the eastern suburbs. Since the onset of the monsoon, the civic administration has been facing flak over pathetic condition of roads. [...] Continue Reading »
