Civic body to concretise 5 major South Mumbai roads

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation plans to improve five major roads in its D-Ward. The five major roads the ward has identified are Bomanji Petit Road in Cumballa Hill, Vivek Singh Lane off Peddar Road near Sophia College, Khetwadi 10th lane in Girgaum, Jairaj Bhai Lane near Navjeevan Society in Dadal Estate, and BB Nakashe Road in Janata Nagar in Tardeo. All of these roads are in poor condition at present and the civic body will be reconstructing them with asphalt concrete.

The estimated cost of the work on these five roads will be Rs 9.27 crore for which the BMC has floated tenders already. The work will begin post monsoon and will be undertaken in phases in 16 months.

"These five roads that BMC plans to revamp are made of paver blocks and cement concrete, which has given rise to many bad patches. Potholes can be filled up easily, but resurfacing bad patches is quite a task. So, we decided to redo entire roads with asphalt concrete," said an official from Roads Department (City).

BMC's Deputy Chief Engineer, Roads, Pradeep Watave, said, "We have identified 50 areas across 24 civic wards in Mumbai where the condition of roads need to be improved. Tenders for other areas will be floated soon."