This year, repairing potholed roads during monsoons is going to be very expensive for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) due to the increased cost of filling potholes. The BMC has called for tenders at an estimated cost of INR 92 crore for plugging potholes. About INR 40 crore were spent every year for this.
Various experiments have been done to fill the potholes that occur every year during the rainy season on the Mumbai roads. The civic body is always criticised for potholes. Even after filling the potholes, questions were being raised about the quality of this work as potholes were repeatedly occurring in the same place. Therefore, this year, the road department of the BMC has decided to adopt new technology.
Two new technologies, reactive asphalt and rapid hardening concrete, will be used to fill potholes on roads. The administration is claiming that potholes are decreasing on one side. But on the other hand, the cost of filling potholes has increased this year. This year, INR 13 crore will be spent on the city division, INR 68 crore on the western suburbs, and INR 9 crore on the eastern suburbs.
How do they know how many potholes will occur?
About INR 40 crore were spent every year to fill potholes. Former opposition leader Ravi Raja has objected that the expenditure has been shown to be more than double this year. Every year 24 divisional offices were spending the same amount for filling potholes. He has also expressed his surprise that tenders have been invited assuming different costs for the city and suburbs. He has also asked how the administration knew in advance how many potholes will occur.
Meanwhile, the administration has claimed that reactive asphalt will be used to fill potholes this year and during heavy rains, it can be used to fill potholes with water. Whereas rapid hardening concrete takes six hours to dry. Therefore, this mixture cannot be used during heavy rains, officials also said. The warranty period for both these mixes is three years. Therefore, the officials informed that for the first time, a condition of three years guarantee period has been imposed while supplying the mixture this year.
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