Following the poor response to tenders worth R5 crore for pothole repairs, the BMC in an emergency meeting on Wednesday, decided to opt for old contractors to fix potholes on Ganpati procession routes on priority and has agreed to pay extra money for the same. The civic body received only one bid for the five tenders it had floated for pothole repairs on July 29. 

Despite several assurances and claims by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, potholes on almost every road are increasing and those repaired are re-emerging after a day or two. The civic body had claimed that new technologies such as rapid hardening concrete and geo-polymer solution would solve the issue of potholes.