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Potholes in mind, BMC doubles road budget

The municipal body received severe criticism for the state of Mumbai’s roads this season.

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Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in now in process of doubling the road budget for maintaining and repairing roads in the arriving fiscal.

In recent times, the corporation had to face a lot of flak from various quarters, since the roads were badly maintained throughout the monsoon. Therefore, Aseem Gupta, additional municipal commissioner said that the civic body will be giving utmost priority towards sprucing up the roads in the 2011-2012 budget. He also added that BMC is exploring different options to enhance the budget provision for roads.

BMC’s total road budget comes to Rs 800 crore for 2010-2011, of which Rs 40 crore was set aside for pothole repairs. The pothole budget was further increased to Rs 60 crore after BMC felt  Rs 40 crore would not be adequate to repair and improve the conditions of the road.

The corporation will also undertake a survey of the roads before going in for the repair work. “We will be buying a machine-’deflectometer’ to check the sustainability of the road. So far only Delhi has this machine. We will rate the roads and prioritize the work,” said a senior official from the roads department.

“We are trying out new technologies but whatever we do for roads, it will be done according the state government-appointed expert committee — the Standing Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) guidelines,” said Gupta.

Rahul Shewale, chairman of the standing committee of BMC informed that the body has got good revenue from Gorai dumping grounds by using eco-friendly technology and it has also helped in getting carbon credits for roads. Shewale also said that they are testing new technologies, one of them being a German technology, to assess the eco-friendliness, and if found good, they will use the same to earn revenue through carbon credits.

BMC also boasts of an in-house technologly termed “Ultra-thin” that was worked on by the engineer from BMC’s road department and IIT-Mumbai. This technology makes good use of waste products such as silica fumes and fly ashes, enabling BMC to earn impressive carbon credits, informed Viahsal Thombre, assistant engineer, road department. Plans to use this technology for topping on Mumbai roads is also on cards.

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