The annual pothole-filling process of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun. The civic body is acting on about 100 crater-related complaints registered on various platforms. But residents claim that with heavy rains lashing the city, there are many more potholes and bad patches. The BMC has made a provision of 1,500 metric tonnes of cold mix, 1300 metric tonnes of which have been distributed in each ward. The rest has been kept in reserve. The material will be used by ward offices to fill potholes on roads with a width of six metres or less.

The civic body has awarded contracts worth Rs 300 crore to fill potholes on main roads with reactive asphalt, a new material, and rapid-hardening concrete. It had also invited contracts worth R400 for urgent pre-monsoon work.