Despite the tall claims of the chief minister and assurances from the BMC, the concreting of roads is going on at a snail’s pace with only 68 km of roads completed in the past 12 months. But this was not the picture before. Interestingly, the BMC had concreted on an average 150 km roads annually in the past few years.

The delayed rain saved the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation`s (BMC) image in June. But as the rain showed its full glory in mid-July, the roads in Mumbai turned into the lunar surface. The same old story of pothole-riddled roads repeated. Last year, the BMC faced the peoples` wrath for the bad state of roads across the city and in July 2022, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde promised that they would concrete every road in the city within two years.