Navratri mandals will face fines for making potholes during pandal installation, warns BMC

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will impose fines on organising committees of Navratri events this year if they are found damaging roads, including pothole formation, while setting up pandals and barricades in Mumbai, said officials on Tuesday.

The move came in the lines of a set of guidelines issued during Ganeshotsav this year, said BMC officials, adding that “organising committees often dig up roads to set up pandals and barricades during various festivals, damaging the roads badly”. Ward officials will conduct surveys on their respective areas following the culmination of the nine-day festival — from September 26 to October 5, and identify potholes formed along the roads within the vicinity of different pandals.