The alarming condition of roads across the state has forced the Bombay High Court to take it upon itself to monitor the work of civic corporations and agencies from across Maharashtra that have failed to resolve the endemic problem of potholes.

The high court has now passed an order giving step-by-step guidelines to all agencies concerned, namely, BMC, MMRDA, CIDCO, PWD (260 different agencies and civic corporations were made party to the case), directing them to get a public grievance mechanism in place, and submit reports, which will be directly monitored by the high court. The court has said it wants to see progress on the guidelines before the next hearing date of July 24. The division bench of Justice P N Deshmukh and Justice A S Oka had passed the order on April 12 this year, which was uploaded only last week.