In order to carry out the largest-ever municipal project to pave 400km of the roadway for INR 60 billion, the BMC has selected five huge construction firms with experience building national highways and has rejected small road builders.
400 km of major roadways will be concreted for the first time in the city’s roadwork history by firms that have built national highways.
Iqbal Chahal, a municipal commissioner, stated that they will receive the letters of intent. He commended deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis and CM Eknath Shinde for having the vision to create Mumbai free of potholes.
The two-year mega-contract for road concreting is expected to go to the businesses Nagarjuna Construction Company, Roadways Solutions India, Eagle Infra India, Megha Engineers & Infrastructure, and Dineshchandra Agrawal Infracon.
A new bid to pave 375 km will be launched later in March, according to Chahal. This is the last opportunity to submit a bid for cement-concrete roads. The 2,000 kilometres of roads in Mumbai would then be entirely concreted, he said. Cement concrete roads are intended to last 25 years.
To ensure quality, high-definition Cctvs will be placed and linked to BMC systems for round-the-clock road monitoring. After sixteen companies filed their proposals, five contracts to construct cement-concrete roadways in the island capital’s eastern & western suburbs were chosen.
The western suburbs received the largest share of three contracts at INR 40 billion. The contract is anticipated to be worth INR 12.34 billion in the island city as a whole and INR 8.46 billions in the eastern suburbs.
Work orders will be issued in three weeks, according to Ulhas Mahale, the deputy municipal commissioner for infrastructure. Then the job might start, he replied. The civic administration has designated a full quality assurance monitoring assurance agency (QMA) to supervise road development.
“BCM will check all the bills annually to make sure the stated requirements have been fully completed. The contractor is in charge of maintaining the accuracy of all bills. If in auditing reviews the invoices are not found in the name of the major contractor, the money made shall be retrieved, and two times the amount of such transaction made will be recovered as a penalty.
