After monsoon, BMC resumes concretisation work on 297.49 km of roads across Mumbai

Launched in 2022, the ambitious Rs 17,000-crore project aims to concretise 700 km of roads across the city. However, all civil work on the project was stalled during the monsoon months spanning from June to September.

With the withdrawal of showers in October, data furnished by the BMC shows that the civic body has resumed concretisation work on 297.49 km of road length encompassing 645 roads across the city. Of the total road work taken up, most roads encompass areas where concretisation work had been partially completed, alongside a small percentage of new roads.

When work was stalled owing to the monsoon onset, 574 roads surpassing 167 km were partially completed, while work on 205 km of roads was yet to be taken up.

At present, officials said that work on 297 km resumed on October 1, with most road works being undertaken in the western suburbs, at 192 km. At 95 km, the highest concentration of under-construction roads fall in Zone IV, which includes areas like densely populated pockets of Malad, Goregaon, Dahisar, and Kandivali.

Meanwhile, nearly 63 km of roads where work was undertaken after the monsoon fall in the eastern suburbs, wherein a larger portion of work has been initiated in Kurla, Chandivali, Deonar, and Chembur areas. In the island city, meanwhile, nearly 41 km of concretisation work has been taken up since October.

“We have started work on over 600 roads. We are planning to complete nearly 80 per cent of the ongoing road works by January. Once these roads are complete, we will progressively initiate work on the new roads,” said a senior BMC official.

Until the concretisation project work was stalled owing to the monsoon onset in June, the BMC said that it had already achieved 63 per cent of the target in the first phase, with 101.67 km of roads completely concretised and 101.68 km partially completed. Meanwhile, in the second phase, 36 per cent of the target had been achieved. Officials have set a target of May 2026 for 95 per cent of the road works in phase I, and 85 per cent in phase II of the mega plan.