The wealthiest municipal organization in the nation, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), is embarrassed every monsoon when potholes arise on Mumbai’s roadways. BMC spends thousands of rupees annually to repair potholes despite having a budget that is bigger than any other small state in India. At BMC headquarters in south Mumbai on Monday, Mangal Prabhat Lodha, the Guardian Minister of Suburban Mumbai, met with assistant commissioner (Projects) P Velarasu and gave him instructions to speed up the citywide pothole patching process.
The BMC repaired 6,000 of the 9,000 potholes on Mumbai’s different highways up until last week.
Lodha started looking at the roads on Sunday night and went to the places where there were more pothole reports. Lodha requested that the hot casting equipment be made accessible as soon as feasible at the Monday evening meeting with BMC representatives. He also requested that the additional commissioner appoint one nodal engineer for each ward to handle the pothole problem.
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development body (MMRDA), the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), or any other body may now fix road craters on roads within their control, according to reports.
Lodha also told the BMC staff till this weekend to repair all the potholes in Mumbai. He urged that the BMC establish a public 24-hour hotline.
Eknath Shinde, the chief minister of Maharashtra, acknowledged the concerns about potholes in Mumbai on Sunday. Shinde instructed BMC official Iqbal Singh Chahal to hasten the process of patching potholes as soon as possible so that Mumbai residents don’t have any inconveniences when traveling.
