Roads riddled with potholes; Thane municipal corpn gets busy filling them

The number of potholes on Thane roads has increased from 1,500 to 2,104 within a fortnight, as per a survey conducted on Tuesday. Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) officials claim only 210 of these potholes are left to be filled. With a budget of over Rs2.25 crore for road repairs by TMC this year; the civic body has managed to fill up 1,804 potholes till now, they said.

TMC deputy city engineer Arjun Ahire said, “The potholes that we have listed are in roads maintained by TMC, others are being filled by the respective agencies. A letter has been submitted to the agencies to complete repair work on the roads and then hand it over to us for maintenance.