After the Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde issued guidelines focusing on fixing the potholes during festivity, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) team is on the field filling the carter.
This move comes in order to make Ganpati Mandals' procession route pothole free. Meanwhile, it is pertinent to note that several lives were claimed recently owing to these potholes.
BMC officials said that they were going to get the roads in shape by filing potholes at least on all Ganpati visarjan routes in the next few days using rapid hardening concrete.
For this, the civic body plans to allot special pothole filling contracts worth INR 7 crores using new technologies.
An official stated that the potholes will be filled using the rapid hardening concrete so the road can be opened for traffic in just six hours after filling the potholes. Accordingly, 696 sq mtrs in the city, 560 sq mtrs in the eastern suburbs and 957 sq mtrs in the western suburbs, a total of 2,213 sq mtrs of potholes have been filled with rapid hardening concrete.
If reports are to be believed, in the last week, the BMC has filled more than 4,000 potholes. Since April 1, the city has reported more than 27,000 potholes, out of which, 45 per cent were reported in the western suburbs. In the last 8 to 10 days, the civic body have filled 300 to 400 potholes in a day on an average.
According to the BMC's statistics from April 1 till August 26, around 27,740 potholes have been attended by the civic team. Almost 9,969 potholes have been reported in the western suburb. The highest number of potholes are reported in Andheri and Malad.
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