Overview
- City officials announced this week that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation will assume control of 41 MSRDC-built assets, including 27 flyovers, four foot overbridges, four pedestrian underpasses, four junctions, one road overbridge and one vehicular underpass.
- The BMC has made the handover conditional on MSRDC providing full technical and contractual records such as design drawings, structural audit reports and bank guarantees before formal transfer.
- Civic minutes say almost all the structures are in a precarious state and need immediate repair after incidents such as last year’s Vakola flyover potholes highlighted gaps in upkeep.
- A private contractor currently holds maintenance and advertising contracts that run until 2029, and the BMC is insisting MSRDC calculate past three years’ upkeep costs and transfer funds to cover maintenance through the contract period.
- The takeover follows the BMC’s 2022 assumption of parts of the WEH and EEH and signals a broader push for one-point accountability that could change who manages repairs, who collects ad revenue after 2029, and how quickly commuters see fixes.