After the drafting of 50-odd tender packages to appoint road contractors for work on around 200 roads in the city, civic chief Praveen Pardeshi has instructed the Roads Department to scrap those and draft new ones.

The civic chief wants to dismantle the contractor lobby by appointing a few big contractors for large-scale road work. The commissioner's ambitions are likely to delay road repairs. The BMC may issue a maximum of five to 10 tender packages instead of the earlier 50. In addition to the delay, the move will also result in more work for the engineers. According to civic officials, the drafting of 50 packages done over the last two months, has now been wasted. Earlier, each tender package cost a maximum of R30 crore, whereas, the new ones will amount to about R100 crore each.