Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road may have narrowly missed out on being Mumbai's longest road but has earned a different, dubious distinction: the city's longest running road project. Nearly four years on, the 8-km road's concretisation is still unfinished. Interestingly, the contractor is RK Madhani and Company, which was blacklisted in the multi-crore road scam in 2017.

A fortnight ago, the BMC pushed the deadline for the concretisation of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road to May 2019, which will mark over four years since the beginning of the project — the longest any contractor has taken to complete work on a single road in the BMC's history. This is the second time the civic body has had to grant an extension for the road work, and with just six months to go, the contractor still has 40 per cent of the work left to do. Civic officials from the Roads department said the work order was issued to RK Madhani and Company on December 9, 2014, at a cost of R113 crore, and it was supposed to be completed by January 2017.