Mumbaikars will have to wait a tad bit longer to get over bad roads riddled with potholes across the city, as the BMC is waiting for a revised rate list before it floats tenders to concretise city roads. The civic body had last week scrapped tenders worth Rs 5,806 crore to convert 400 km of asphalt roads into cement-concrete ones. 

These tenders were based on a rate list from 2018. The BMC plans to float revised tenders with an increased rate, based on the new schedule for road works, in December. The new rate list, however, is still two weeks away from completion. If put into effect, the cost of construction of 400 km of road work will jump by at least 20 per cent.