Around 40 per cent of the roads which were approved for cement concretisation in January this year and the previous year are yet to see any changes, as per data from the BMC. Of the 551 roads covering 236 km which were approved, 114 roads have been concretised and the work on 212 others are ongoing. The civic body has also started the process of converting another 400 km of asphalt roads into cement concrete and the work is likely to start next month. 

Of the 551 roads, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation approved work orders of 505 in January while the remaining were spillover from last year. Though the work started in March, a majority of the roads were untouched till June due to some technical issue regarding laying underground ducts. The BMC finally stepped up the work in October and completed works on 114 roads in the past two months. As per civic officials, work is yet to start on 199 roads. Of the 352 roads where work has started including the 114 which have been completed, a majority of 140 are in western suburbs, followed by 112 in eastern suburbs. The pace of work in the island city is slow with work starting at only 100 of the 200 roads.