BMC says will concretise all roads in three years; court says will ask urban development department to consider its request for single road authority: HC

After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told the Bombay High Court on Friday that it had written to the State Chief Secretary last February to make it the sole planning authority for road maintenance in Mumbai, the court indicated it will direct the urban development department (UDD) to consider the request.

The court made these remarks while hearing a contempt petition filed by a lawyer, alleging that civic authorities had failed to implement the High Court orders of February and April 2018, on a suo motu PIL directing repairs on potholes on all arterial roads in the city as well as a uniform mechanism to redress residents’ grievances pertaining to bad roads and potholes.