The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has hit upon a new idea to control digging of roads. Authorities have decided to charge agencies by the metre for the cables or pipes they work on. Roads in the city are often known to be excavated for different reasons by different utility organisations to fix power lines, lay down new optical fibre cables by the telephone company, or gas pipes by the gas agency.

Authorities also plan to collect and maintain data on how many times work is carried out by an agency and the locations under which the utilities will pass. File pic