After the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Tuesday floated tenders of a collective hefty amount of Rs 5,800 crore for cement concretisation of 400 km of roads, the administration said work orders for the project are likely to be issued after the monsoon period after which the work can start in December 2022.
However, with demand for the money to facilitate the projects from taxpayers’ money likely to be made without a standing committee approving the proposals, experts, former bureaucrats, and politicians have expressed mixed reactions to the move.
The standing committee is a statutory body in BMC composed of elected representatives, responsible for taking the financial decisions of the BMC and approving its expenditure.
