No new road projects to be taken up, BMC to focus on ongoing repair works

Facing a dip in revenues, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will not take up any new road projects this year and instead focus on finishing ongoing repair works.

From October, apart from the already initiated repair works, the civic body had planned taking up new road projects over a 289 km stretch — concrete as well as asphalt — across Mumbai.

“Taking note of the strain on finances, we have been asked not to take up any new road works. Whatever works had been initiated in April, we will focus on finishing them after the monsoon is over. From October 1, work on road repairs will resume,” said a senior official from BMC’s roads and traffic department. Before monsoon, repair works had started on 400 roads, officials said.