{"id":574680,"date":"2023-05-04T11:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T06:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=574680"},"modified":"2023-05-04T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T07:45:50","slug":"new-pothole-fix-technologies-3-bids-24-above-bmcs-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/new-pothole-fix-technologies-3-bids-24-above-bmcs-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"New pothole-fix technologies: 3 bids 24% above BMC&#8217;s estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The BMC&#8217;s Rs 34-crore tender for filling potholes using reactive asphalt, which was floated last month, has attracted only three bidders who have all quoted an average 24% above the official estimate. <\/p>\n<p>While Opposition members have alleged cartelisation by contractors, the BMC has justified the high quotations by the three bidders, saying reactive asphalt is a patented technology. <\/p>\n<p>To ensure a pothole-free city before monsoon, the BMC is spending Rs 300 crore for fixing potholes using reactive asphalt and rapid hardening concrete technologies, as well as traditional mastic asphalt method, and resurfacing bad patches. Of the Rs 125-crore allocation for the two new pothole-fix technologies, Rs 34 crore is for reactive asphalt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI: The BMC&#8217;s Rs 34-crore tender for filling potholes using reactive asphalt, which was floated last month, has attracted only three bidders who have all quoted an average 24% above the official estimate. While Opposition members have alleged cartelisation by contractors, the BMC has justified the high quotations by the three bidders, saying reactive asphalt is a patented technology. To ensure a pothole-free city before monsoon, the BMC is spending Rs 300 crore for fixing potholes using reactive asphalt and rapid hardening concrete technologies, as well as traditional mastic asphalt method, and resurfacing bad patches. Of the Rs 125-crore allocation [&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":[130,221,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-roads-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574680","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=574680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}