Mumbai: The condition of city’s roads may be the butt of all jokes on the social media, but there seems to be no dearth of promises when it comes to netas and civic officials assuring to improve the situation.
Consider this: The Maharashtra govt will ensure that all concrete road work in Mumbai meets top quality standards, industries minister Uday Samant said on Tuesday in the state legislative council, even as the BMC is rushing to finish works on 490km of the total 701km of roads by May 31.
“To ensure proper coordination of all road concretisation projects in Mumbai, a decision has been taken to appoint an IAS officer. This officer will be responsible for overseeing the quality and progress of the work,” Samant said, while responding to a starred question raised by BJP MLC Prasad Lad. The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, who holds urban development and public works portfolios, on Monday.
Samant’s statement comes a day after a meeting chaired by Speaker Rahul Narwekar with over 20 city MLAs, who raised concerns over the ongoing road concretisation works with the BMC commissioner. The project, which aims to convert 701km of Mumbai’s roads into cement concrete, has been marred by delays, quality concerns, and massive disruption to traffic.
On Tuesday, the BMC initiated the appointment of zonal officers to compile a report on lapses in road concretisation work by contractors across the island city, eastern and western suburbs. It was also decided that a new circular would be issued, prohibiting utility agencies from trenching on concrete roads. A formal letter regarding this directive will be sent to the utility providers, including BEST, Adani, Mahanagar Gas Ltd, and Tata Power.
Additionally, plans are underway to draft a schedule for joint site inspections involving MLAs and assistant engineers of the respective wards. Civic cfficials were also directed that the ongoing road concreting work must be completed within the next 70 days, by May 31. For this, micro-planning is necessary, and a completion date for each road must be determined, said the senior officials chairing the meeting.
Senior engineers were asked to make surprise visits — even at night — to work sites, focus on speed and quality, and impose a ban on digging any newly laid roads. Active participation is required, not just technical expertise, the BMC officials were told.
According to the feedback given by the engineers, road works are being delayed due to pipelines from the water engineering, sewage projects, and other utility agencies. “Under no circumstances should the ongoing work be left incomplete by May 31. Based on information received from public representatives and local citizens, issues such as lack of barricades, scattered debris, and cement-mixed water in stormwater drains have been reported, and instructions have been given on measures to address these,” said a BMC official. If a dug-up road is not concretised before monsoon, the contractor concerned may either be penalised or served a notice , the official added.
Mumbai: The condition of city’s roads may be the butt of all jokes on the social media, but there seems to be no dearth of promises when it comes to netas and civic officials assuring to improve the situation.
Consider this: The Maharashtra govt will ensure that all concrete road work in Mumbai meets top quality standards, industries minister Uday Samant said on Tuesday in the state legislative council, even as the BMC is rushing to finish works on 490km of the total 701km of roads by May 31.
“To ensure proper coordination of all road concretisation projects in Mumbai, a decision has been taken to appoint an IAS officer. This officer will be responsible for overseeing the quality and progress of the work,” Samant said, while responding to a starred question raised by BJP MLC Prasad Lad. The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, who holds urban development and public works portfolios, on Monday.
Samant’s statement comes a day after a meeting chaired by Speaker Rahul Narwekar with over 20 city MLAs, who raised concerns over the ongoing road concretisation works with the BMC commissioner. The project, which aims to convert 701km of Mumbai’s roads into cement concrete, has been marred by delays, quality concerns, and massive disruption to traffic.
On Tuesday, the BMC initiated the appointment of zonal officers to compile a report on lapses in road concretisation work by contractors across the island city, eastern and western suburbs. It was also decided that a new circular would be issued, prohibiting utility agencies from trenching on concrete roads. A formal letter regarding this directive will be sent to the utility providers, including BEST, Adani, Mahanagar Gas Ltd, and Tata Power.
Additionally, plans are underway to draft a schedule for joint site inspections involving MLAs and assistant engineers of the respective wards. Civic cfficials were also directed that the ongoing road concreting work must be completed within the next 70 days, by May 31. For this, micro-planning is necessary, and a completion date for each road must be determined, said the senior officials chairing the meeting.
Senior engineers were asked to make surprise visits — even at night — to work sites, focus on speed and quality, and impose a ban on digging any newly laid roads. Active participation is required, not just technical expertise, the BMC officials were told.
According to the feedback given by the engineers, road works are being delayed due to pipelines from the water engineering, sewage projects, and other utility agencies. “Under no circumstances should the ongoing work be left incomplete by May 31. Based on information received from public representatives and local citizens, issues such as lack of barricades, scattered debris, and cement-mixed water in stormwater drains have been reported, and instructions have been given on measures to address these,” said a BMC official. If a dug-up road is not concretised before monsoon, the contractor concerned may either be penalised or served a notice , the official added.
Consider this: The Maharashtra govt will ensure that all concrete road work in Mumbai meets top quality standards, industries minister Uday Samant said on Tuesday in the state legislative council, even as the BMC is rushing to finish works on 490km of the total 701km of roads by May 31.
“To ensure proper coordination of all road concretisation projects in Mumbai, a decision has been taken to appoint an IAS officer. This officer will be responsible for overseeing the quality and progress of the work,” Samant said, while responding to a starred question raised by BJP MLC Prasad Lad. The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, who holds urban development and public works portfolios, on Monday.
Samant’s statement comes a day after a meeting chaired by Speaker Rahul Narwekar with over 20 city MLAs, who raised concerns over the ongoing road concretisation works with the BMC commissioner. The project, which aims to convert 701km of Mumbai’s roads into cement concrete, has been marred by delays, quality concerns, and massive disruption to traffic.
On Tuesday, the BMC initiated the appointment of zonal officers to compile a report on lapses in road concretisation work by contractors across the island city, eastern and western suburbs. It was also decided that a new circular would be issued, prohibiting utility agencies from trenching on concrete roads. A formal letter regarding this directive will be sent to the utility providers, including BEST, Adani, Mahanagar Gas Ltd, and Tata Power.
Additionally, plans are underway to draft a schedule for joint site inspections involving MLAs and assistant engineers of the respective wards. Civic cfficials were also directed that the ongoing road concreting work must be completed within the next 70 days, by May 31. For this, micro-planning is necessary, and a completion date for each road must be determined, said the senior officials chairing the meeting.
Senior engineers were asked to make surprise visits — even at night — to work sites, focus on speed and quality, and impose a ban on digging any newly laid roads. Active participation is required, not just technical expertise, the BMC officials were told.
According to the feedback given by the engineers, road works are being delayed due to pipelines from the water engineering, sewage projects, and other utility agencies. “Under no circumstances should the ongoing work be left incomplete by May 31. Based on information received from public representatives and local citizens, issues such as lack of barricades, scattered debris, and cement-mixed water in stormwater drains have been reported, and instructions have been given on measures to address these,” said a BMC official. If a dug-up road is not concretised before monsoon, the contractor concerned may either be penalised or served a notice , the official added.
Mumbai: The condition of city’s roads may be the butt of all jokes on the social media, but there seems to be no dearth of promises when it comes to netas and civic officials assuring to improve the situation.
Consider this: The Maharashtra govt will ensure that all concrete road work in Mumbai meets top quality standards, industries minister Uday Samant said on Tuesday in the state legislative council, even as the BMC is rushing to finish works on 490km of the total 701km of roads by May 31.
“To ensure proper coordination of all road concretisation projects in Mumbai, a decision has been taken to appoint an IAS officer. This officer will be responsible for overseeing the quality and progress of the work,” Samant said, while responding to a starred question raised by BJP MLC Prasad Lad. The decision was taken during a meeting chaired by deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde, who holds urban development and public works portfolios, on Monday.
Samant’s statement comes a day after a meeting chaired by Speaker Rahul Narwekar with over 20 city MLAs, who raised concerns over the ongoing road concretisation works with the BMC commissioner. The project, which aims to convert 701km of Mumbai’s roads into cement concrete, has been marred by delays, quality concerns, and massive disruption to traffic.
On Tuesday, the BMC initiated the appointment of zonal officers to compile a report on lapses in road concretisation work by contractors across the island city, eastern and western suburbs. It was also decided that a new circular would be issued, prohibiting utility agencies from trenching on concrete roads. A formal letter regarding this directive will be sent to the utility providers, including BEST, Adani, Mahanagar Gas Ltd, and Tata Power.
Additionally, plans are underway to draft a schedule for joint site inspections involving MLAs and assistant engineers of the respective wards. Civic cfficials were also directed that the ongoing road concreting work must be completed within the next 70 days, by May 31. For this, micro-planning is necessary, and a completion date for each road must be determined, said the senior officials chairing the meeting.
Senior engineers were asked to make surprise visits — even at night — to work sites, focus on speed and quality, and impose a ban on digging any newly laid roads. Active participation is required, not just technical expertise, the BMC officials were told.
According to the feedback given by the engineers, road works are being delayed due to pipelines from the water engineering, sewage projects, and other utility agencies. “Under no circumstances should the ongoing work be left incomplete by May 31. Based on information received from public representatives and local citizens, issues such as lack of barricades, scattered debris, and cement-mixed water in stormwater drains have been reported, and instructions have been given on measures to address these,” said a BMC official. If a dug-up road is not concretised before monsoon, the contractor concerned may either be penalised or served a notice , the official added.
