22 April,2026 10:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Eeshanpriya MS
A bird’s eye view of the SG Barve Marg stretch near Kurla railway station on August 16, 2025. PIC/SATEJ SHINDE
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to spend Rs 105 crore for fixing potholes on Mumbai's roads ahead of the monsoon season this year - a little more than half the amount spent by the civic body for the same purpose last year, Rs 200 crore, according to official information.
The cost of work pothole fixing has reduced due to the BMC's Rs 17,000-crore road concreting project, which is nearing 75 per cent completion, in comparison to 45 per cent progress achieved during the same time last year. In the past year, the civic body's use of mastic has gone down by 50 per cent.
The work includes two large tenders of Rs 30 crore each for the Western and Eastern Express Highways, seven tenders for roads below nine metres in width and seven tenders for roads above nine metres in width that have not yet been concreted, and a tender for procuring cold mix.
In 2023, BMC undertook the concreting of 700 km of Mumbai's roads to make them more durable and free of potholes. The project is expected to significantly reduce the cost of repairing asphalt roads frequently.
Until last year, the BMC was using cold mix prepared in its own manufacturing plant, fixing potholes on roads less than six metres in width. However, the plant was shut down. "The plant was shut down for various reasons, including pollution concerns, as it was located in the middle of the city. Last year, we used cold mix worth Rs 7.5 crore. This year, the cost has been halved," an official said.
Roads wider than nine metres (which have not yet been concreted)
Rs 22 crore
Roads not wider than nine metres
Rs 20 crore
Cold mix to fix roads with a width below six metres
Rs 3 crore
Western Express Highway and its service roads
Rs 30 crore
Eastern Express Highway and its service roads
Rs 30 crore
