The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is finalising a new trenching policy post monsoon to eliminate the repeated digging of concreted roads. Of the 2050 km of roads in Mumbai, 1224 km of roads have been concreted by BMC before 2023 — the year it undertook its Rs 17,000 crore project for concreting an additional 700 km of roads.

All new road work projects part of this 700 km road network already have ducts underneath the road surface that eliminate the need to dig them up for laying new cables. Agencies simply have to open the duct lids to access or lay new utilities, according to the BMC.