September 11, 2025: With the monsoon season nearing its end, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is preparing to restart work on its large-scale road concretisation project from October 1. Officials confirmed that work on 574 partially completed roads will be taken up within the first two weeks of October.
Additional municipal commissioner (roads) Abhijit Bangar said, “We will first take up the partially completed road works on priority, as many of these works were in the advanced stages but couldn’t be completed because of the onset of monsoons. Along with these, we will also look at taking up some of the 776 road works proposed for concretisation, which are yet to be started in totality. But initially, we aim to try and finish works on the 574 roads.”
Many of these 574 roads fall under South Mumbai’s administrative wards, where progress has been relatively slower due to contractor-related delays. Key stretches awaiting completion include Pali Mala Road and John Baptist Road in Bandra West and 2nd Hasnabad Road in Santacruz West. To minimise inconvenience, the BMC plans to avoid carrying out multiple roadworks in the same neighbourhood simultaneously, Bangar added.
Last year, motorists in Bandra West faced severe disruptions when several roads were taken up for concretisation at once. Meanwhile, around 25 proposed roads have been excluded from the project. Bangar explained, “In some roads, we didn’t get full width to concretise the entire stretch, and only concretisation of a part of it was not feasible. In such cases, we decided to asphalt the roads. Apart from it, in some cases, there was also opposition from citizens, and the civic body decided to relook at the need for concretisation of such roads.”
During the BMC’s 2025-26 budget presentation in February, Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani also noted that residents’ objections to road concretisation would be respected. For instance, in February, celebrity nutritionist Rujuta Diwekar opposed the concretisation of Auxilium Convent Road in Bandra West, prompting the BMC to withdraw its plan.
Source: The Times of India
