Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has invited five tenders amounting to an estimated cost of Rs 5,806 crore to complete cement-concretisation work on a total of 400 km of roads in the city within the next two years. This is the first time that tenders of this scale have been floated, all on the same day, for improving road infrastructure in Mumbai.
The tenders were floated nine days after Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde reviewed roads works in BMC and directed that the work on improving the road infrastructure in the city be expedited. During the July 23 meeting, Shinde had also announced that Mumbai will be made pothole-free in the next two years.