BMC announced that a digital dashboard will be created to provide people with all information related to roadworks in the city

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday announced that a digital dashboard will be created, to provide people with all information related to roadworks in the city. This will ensure adequate transparency in road concretisation work, and maintain smooth coordination between different civic departments, said officials. At present, the Storm Water Drains (SWD) department maintains a similar dashboard, which provides real-time data on pre-monsoon desilting work.

All the major road stretches would be taken up for concretisation immediately after the monsoon, as the clauses in the contract suggest that the work would continue for 24 months — excluding the season according to P Velrasu, additional municipal commissioner (projects). The BMC on Wednesday said that its road department has started concretising several major roads in Mumbai, along with beautification projects and maintenance of footpaths.

some data to be made available on the dashboard include the timeframe of specified work, details about the defect liability period (DLP) of roads, and progression of road development along a stretch as maintained by BMC officials. P Velrasu said that a fresh tender will be floated soon for appointing a consultant. The role of the consultant would be to study challenges faced by the department while working on the projects, come up with desirable solutions, acquire day-to-day data from the departments concerned, and collate everything before putting it on the website.