The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is yet to award a contract for concreting roads. The civic administrator told the high court in September last year that the BMC would turn all roads into concrete ones within two and half years. But going by the current pace of the work, this seems impossible.

The total length of the city’s road network is 2,050 km and concrete roads account for 990 km. The BMC started concreting 210 km of roads in January 2022 and awarded contracts for concreting 397 km in February and March 2023 at the cost of Rs 6,080 crore, excluding 18 per cent GST.