Coming under the scanner for not preparing the designs for reconstruction of seven bridges in the western suburbs, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has now decided that experts from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) would review the designs prepared by contractors, who will work on the bridges in design-build-transfer basis.

Civic officials said that apart from the experts looking into it, they would also finalise the designs themselves. The BMC has planned to reconstruct seven bridges including the ones near Juhu Tara, Inorbit Mall at Malad, Dhobighat at Andheri East and Vakola-Hansbhugra. The project will cost the civic body R95 crore and would be completed in six months. Following the foot-over-bridge collapse at CSMT on March 14, dilapidated bridges across the city were re-audited. The Bridges Department has invited tenders for reconstruction work so that it can start after monsoon.