BMC places QR codes at CC rd sites to access work info

March 7, 2025

Mumbai: BMC has installed information boards, along with QR codes, at road concretisation sites in the city to allow citizens to access all information about the project, such as dates of commencement and completion, duration of work, length and width of the road, and place of work. The QR code initiative will be extended to sites where other development works are underway."Citizens keep complaining that roads are dug up and abandoned and that no information is given about the work being carried out, the affected stretch, and the duration of work. The QR code will help bridge this information gap," said a BMC official.Meanwhile, BMC additional commissioner (projects) Abhijit Bangar directed officials to wrap up the concretisation works early. Civic officials had on Tuesday assured chief minister Devendra Fadnavis that these works would be completed ahead of the deadline.Road concretisation is being undertaken for 324km, covering 698 roads, in the first phase, and 377km, spanning 1,420 roads, in the second. While phase 1's deadline is Jan 1, 2026, the second phase has to be completed by May 2027. Civic officials, though, are confident about completing phase 1 by Dec this year and the second by next Dec.K V Krishna Rao, senior professor and deputy director of IIT-Bombay, who accompanied Bangar during an inspection of Hutatma Chowk in south Mumbai on Tuesday, made some observations about the work. A ‘sand patch' test of the surface of a stretch of concrete road opened to traffic was conducted during the inspection.Earlier, Bangar had directed that concretisation works be carried out between two junctions and not on intermittent stretches of a road.

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