According to BMC, all the roads do not fall in their jurisdiction. Western express highway, and eastern express highway falls under MMRDA jurisdiction and filling up potholes during monsoon on these highways is the responsibility of MMRDA too.
Every year, BMC publishes the number of its local ward engineers’ phone numbers for citizens to register complaints about potholes. This year along with the BMC engineers BMC will publish the numbers of MMRDA officers. Every year BMC has been held responsible for the potholes. Therefore, BMC has decided to publish MMRDA nodal officers’ numbers. According to BMC, all the roads do not fall in their jurisdiction. Western express highway, and eastern express highway falls under MMRDA jurisdiction and filling up potholes during monsoon on these highways is the responsibility of MMRDA too.
Source – Free Press Journal
