The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is going slow while awarding contracts for the concreting of roads. Though hardly 25 per cent work that had been awarded to firms has been completed, tenders were invited in February and bids were opened in April. The corporation, however, hasn’t issued work orders yet. Even the SoBo road contract in the previous year hasn’t been finalised yet.

Pothole-ridden roads are an annual woe for Mumbaikars during the monsoon season. After the public outrage, the Bombay High Court asked then-civic chief Iqbal Singh Chahal to explain the civic body’s side on September 30, 2022. The BMC assured the court that it would complete the concreting of all the remaining asphalt roads within a two and half years. Though two years have passed since then, the BMC hasn’t reached 30 per cent of its target.