As monsoon nears end, works on mega concretisation project to resume from Oct 1

On Tuesday, the BMC launched its ‘Concretisation of Roads’ public dashboard which enables citizens to check the status of  Rs17,000-crore concretisation project, which seeks to concretise 698.73 km roads of Mumbai.

To gain public feedback on the ongoing works, the portal furnishes details about the name of contractors, date of start, completion as well as other details pertaining to each road which has been earmarked for concretisation.

Data furnished by the civic body shows that so far 49 per cent of the total roads taken up have been completed of which nearly 64 per cent has been completed in the second phase.

According to officials, over 771 roads of 186 km have been completed in entirety while 547 roads of 156.74 km of roads have been partially completed.

Meanwhile, 208.70 km of roads are yet to be taken up for concretisation.

While works had been suspended after May owing to the onset of monsoon, senior BMC officials on Tuesday said that work on the project will commence from October 1.

Additional Municipal Commissioner (Projects) Abhijit Bangar said, “In a bid to complete ongoing works, we will immediately take up works on 574 roads, which have partially completed roads from October 1. However, to prevent any inconvenience for people, the work will be taken up in a staggered manner. Alongside this, we will also take up roads where no work has been started so far.”

Among  the several roads where work will commence after the withdrawal of monsoon in October include Juhu side strip roads, Khetwadi road, Tejpal road, Pali Mala road etc.

Bangar said that the civic body is likely to complete the entire phase I works by May 2026 while a phenomenal progress will also be recorded in phase II, which is likely to be executed to completion by first half of 2027.

Meanwhile, nearly 25 roads which had previously been earmarked for concretisation have also been deleted from the civic plans.

“At least 25 roads have been deleted from the plan in cases where we have received requests from citizens and we found them valid, or in areas where the width of the road was too narrow. Besides, if we see difficulties in removing encroachments, we have decided to fix those roads in asphalt, thereby excluding them from the project purview,” said a civic official.