With the monsoons fast approaching, there’s one thing on every motorists’ mind: how they would endure the backbreaking drives owing to the huge potholes further compounded with the use of paver blocks, which will lose their grip and get dislodged from their base once they receive the battering of the heavy seasonal rains.

As part of MiD DAY’s road campaign, we analyse theu00a0use of paver blocks byu00a0the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) despite theu00a0government’s Public Works Department (PWD) insistingu00a0on using asphalt and concrete on highways this year as partu00a0of their monsoon precautions.