The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has received a total of 229 pothole-related complaints in June and July this year so far through its “Pothole Fixit” mobile application. Of this, only 16 potholes have been fixed.
Meanwhile, as per BMC’s data, more than 80 per cent of the pothole-related complaints the civic body received this year has been between June 30 and July 6, after the city began receiving its first spell of heavy rains on June 30.
This development comes despite the civic body every year being allocating whopping amount of budget to avoid waterlogging and reducing potholes issue in the city.
Meanwhile, citizens and activists said that the actual number of potholes on the roads of Mumbai are much more than the numbers shared by the civic body.
On the other hand, civic officials maintained that all the complaints that they receive are being attended to within 24 hours. However, in many cases after the potholes are filled, the contractors submit their report late. Therefore, it takes us longer to update this data in the server, as a result several complaints are being shown as unattended, officials added.
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Moreover, civic officials explained that the problem of potholes could only be solved in entirety after the existing roads in Mumbai would be concretised.
According to data extracted from the app, out of the total cases 42 cases have been transferred to contractors responsible for road maintenance, 23 have already been surveyed and attended to, and only 16 have been filled and resolved completely.
For those unversed, ‘MyBMC Pothole Fixit’ is an app through which citizens can directly report pothole-related grievances.
Also Read: BMC Budget 2022: Various Measures To Tackle Waterlogging Listed
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