Mumbai: BMC has spent more than RS 21,000 Crore on repairs, maintenance, and new road construction within a little more than two decades, showing Civic’s body data in return for information rights applications (RTI).
Further data shows maximum money – RS 3.201 Crore – spent between 2013 and 2014.
Immediately after, in 2015, road fraud has turned on, raising questions for expenses.
The number of timesiviewhumung spent working on the road in Mumbai shows that it is a wheat racket money.
Corporation that is rich in cash allocating a large budget flows into hundreds of crores a year to repair and add road networks.
It also has in-house skills; engineering department with qualified engineer forces.
Apart from this resource, Jalan Mumbai is a mess.
BMC must be pressed to appoint an independent audit team to check the works.
Pay attention to the toi July 27 report about the hole, Andheri Mla Ameet Satam said this January, BMC said the department of the road had spent more than RS 21,000 Crore since 1997 in return given to RTI Plea who was looking for details about it.
“The bad road is one of the most urgent problems in this city, but the conditions have not changed for decades.
There are several reasons for this, one lack of coordination between several utility institutions and BMC.
So, when a new road was made, next year it was excavated To put down the cable.
Another problem is that there are no major road construction companies that are advanced to take the work because the tender size is very small for them (anywhere between Rs 1 Crore and Rs 6 Crore).
Second, they are hesitant because they feel they feel Maybe you have to use the palm on some levels, “said Satam.
Data from the Pothole BMC complaint website shows the number has increased to 437 now compared to 315 in 2020.
Dhaval Shah of Andheri Lokhandwala Association ‘said citizens do not need to complain about holes.
“The Civic body has an environmental level team that is expected to move.
They must ensure that the hole or patch of bad roads in their ward is filled as soon as they pay attention to it,” he said.
Experts call it a vicious circle as they say one, adequate quality examination is not done when the road is repaired, two, no one demands the best quality work for a large amount of money spent, and three, traffic only grows, places a larger burden , On city streets, which continue to develop uneven holes or patches in several years after repairs.
Professor IIT-Bombay Pradipta Banerji, a structural engineer, said that ensuring quality control is key.
“For this, someone must be competent enough to understand the quality of the work done.
Another problem is the burden of large vehicles, as a result of road work where do not remain intact for years.
In cities like us, traffic always moves.
For road work well, the traffic needs to be stopped.
If the authorities do that, the driver can complain.
Therefore, I said, it was a demon circle.
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