After being rapped by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan and other ministers over the poor condition of roads and shoddy monsoon repairs, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) claims to have attended to 162 chronic pothole locations in 48 hours between Friday and Sunday night.
The civic body claimed only 495 more locations with potholes are remaining, which it promised to patch up if the dry spell continues for another three to four days.
Following a meeting with Municipal Commissioner Subodh Kumar, roads officials said new technologies in pothole-filling will be included in the next repair tenders, which will be issued in March 2012.
“Depending on the cost effectiveness, durability, compatibility with city conditions and the life-cycle cost of technologies such as carboncore, wonder patch, quick emulsion bitumen etc, their usage will be made compulsory,” said a roads official. Additional Commissioner Aseem Gupta added that tender conditions will be modified in a way that such technologies are used by contractors due to incentives.
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