While the BMC has completed less than 25 per cent of road concretisation work undertaken last year, it will initiate more road works on the new contract. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde will inaugurate these road projects on Sunday. In addition to the ongoing 500 works, 320 works under the Mumbai beautification project will also begin. 

Of the total 2,050-km roads in the city, 990 km of roads are already concretised. The work on concretising 210 km of roads started last year in February 2022, out of it only 57 km of roads were concretised till the end of January 2023. Meanwhile the BMC started the process of concretisation of 397 km of additional roads.