BMC to carry out major road repairs

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has allocated ?529 crore for road repairs in South Mumbai. This is the largest set of road maintenance contracts given out by the BMC in a single region and is about 50% of the amount the corporation spent on road repairs last year in the entire city. About 129 roads will be re-laid out of which 102 will be laid in asphalt while 27 will be with concrete. There are four projects for which the BMC has floated tenders ? worth ?117 crore, ?137 crore, ?148 crore and ?127 crore respectively. The corporation has relaxed rules, with contracting firms now being able to work on more than one project at a time.