Overview

• Ministers Ashish Shelar and Mangal Prabhat Lodha said Mumbai’s roads will be pothole-free before Ganeshotsav begins on August 27.
• Ashish Shelar issued a three-day deadline after heavy rain worsened road conditions, convening a high-level review with civic and transport agencies.
• Officials were directed to deploy mastic asphalt for durability and to accelerate trench-filling and other pending works across highways, arterial and internal roads.
• The BMC reported thousands of complaints, with counts cited as about 8,000 and 11,525 since June, including issues tied to roads under other agencies and a surge of more than 4,000 in August.
• Urgent repairs were ordered on flyovers at Vakola, Vikhroli and Goregaon, with BMC set to take over if MSRDC does not act, as the Congress accused the government of poor coordination and policy drift over toll and maintenance.