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Mumbai: BMC to use ducts to avoid excavating roads
Updated On: 02 March, 2024 07:00 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Underground utilities will be encased, reducing the need for trenching in future in the city
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A dug-up Dadabhai Road in Andheri West on January 16. Pic/Anurag Ahire
To eliminate the need for trenching, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finalised a policy whereby ducts will be provided for underground utilities while carrying out road repair work. Civic chief I S Chahal approved the policy in the first week of February.
According to the policy, to avoid excavation of concrete roads less than 40 metres wide, a side strip of approximately one metre width shall be cast in a reinforced cement concrete duct and during improvement, all the power and communication utilities shall be shifted to this duct. If the road width is more than 40 metres, at least 1.5-metre-wide side strips are to be ducted.
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