Even before the monsoon can challenge the city's crumbling infrastructure, discontent among civic officials has already begun to hamper work. As many as 42 engineers of the BMC's Bridges department have decided to go on a mass leave as a sign of protest against the arrest of SO Kori, former Chief Engineer of the department.

He was arrested on Tuesday over the Foot Over Bridge collapse that killed seven earlier this year. Last week, there was also news about the slow pace of road repair work in the city ahead of the monsoon. As on date, 40 bridge project works, 170 minor repairs on city's bridges and 47 major repair works are pending, which were to be taken care of before the monsoon. However, with the engineers going on leave till May 21, the work will not be supervised.