The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) decided to remove all paver blocks on the roads and carry out fresh road repairs, recently. The city's footpaths will now undergo the same process. BMC officials plan to concretise the footpaths, and have opted for a marble chip finish, to make them look more aesthetic.

Aestheticism is certainly interesting for pavements that have been in very poor shape over the years. In most places footpaths have become invisible because they have been encroached on by hawkers and vagrants. In other places, they are broken; paver blocks are missing, creating dangerous cavities waiting to swallow up unsuspecting pedestrians.