{"id":526281,"date":"2022-10-01T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=526281"},"modified":"2022-10-01T09:41:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T04:11:54","slug":"mumbai-needs-single-planning-authority-for-pothole-free-roads-bmc-to-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mumbai-needs-single-planning-authority-for-pothole-free-roads-bmc-to-hc\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumbai needs &#8216;single planning authority&#8217; for pothole-free roads: BMC to HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai cannot be pothole-free till the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation becomes the &#8220;single planning authority&#8221; to look after the maintenance of roads, the civic body in the metropolis told the Bombay High Court on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>In a presentation to a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik, BMC commissioner Iqbal Chahal said 2,050 kilometres of the city are in the civic body&#8217;s jurisdiction and some 500 kilometres with 15 other agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem is, apart from the BMC, we have 15 other agencies who own 500 kilometres of road. I am not supposed to spend my fund on this. Most complaints are from these areas. If these 15 agencies do not pull up their socks then we will not have a pothole-free city,&#8221; Chahal said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai cannot be pothole-free till the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation becomes the &#8220;single planning authority&#8221; to look after the maintenance of roads, the civic body in the metropolis told the Bombay High Court on Friday. In a presentation to a division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik, BMC commissioner Iqbal Chahal said 2,050 kilometres of the city are in the civic body&#8217;s jurisdiction and some 500 kilometres with 15 other agencies. &#8220;The problem is, apart from the BMC, we have 15 other agencies who own 500 kilometres of road. I am not supposed to spend my fund [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}