Complete all road concretisation work by May 31, Maharashtra govt tells BMC

“The meeting was extremely useful to solve the grievances of people of Mumbai. All the issues were discussed positively. It has been decided to complete the work by May 31 and no new works will be taken up. A review meeting of this will be held by the end of April,” said Guardian Minister of Mumbai suburbs, Ashish Shelar.

The meeting has also directed that Additional Municipal Commissioners will hold meetings with officials of various utilities that run underground and assistant commissioners have been asked to prepare a timetable of the ongoing concretisation of the roads. “It was also discussed to check the feasibility as to whether smaller roads can be made of asphalt, instead of concrete,” said BJP MLA Amit Satam.

Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray had raised the issue of irregularities in the work of Mumbai’s roads. Last week, he wrote to Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis demanding an investigation by the Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of the police into the alleged Mumbai road scam of 2023-24.

After the meeting, Thackeray said he had raised the issues of cost escalations and advance mobility funds given to road contractors. “It has been directed to provide documents for the same,” he said.

On Friday, Shinde came under the scanner of ruling BJP and Opposition MLAs over the issue of concretisation of Mumbai roads. All party MLAs slammed the state government over alleged irregularities in the work of concretisation of roads. On Monday, Shinde did not attend the meeting and instead arrived at the very end.