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Proposals worth Rs 223.6 crore stalled in a day by BMC committee
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Proposals worth Rs 223.6 crore stalled in a day by BMC committee

The Indian Express·Express News Service·26 days ago
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At present, the civic body has taken up a Rs 17,700-crore road concretisation project and members of the standing committee stated that an inspection should be carried out at the site before the tender is cleared. (File Photo) The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Wednesday stalled the clearances of three separate proposals amounting to Rs 223.6 crore, after the elected representatives flagged their contentious nature. Of the three, two were separate proposals of Rs 62.6 and 61 crore each which the civic road’s department had floated to carry out micro surfacing of the Western Express Highway (WEH) and Eastern Express Highway (EEH) in a bid to keep the roads pothole-free during monsoon. According to the tabled proposal, micro surfacing is a methodology under which the surface of the road is evened by using cement cold mix along with an aggregate of bitumen, water and filler. This methodology is usually a preventive maintenance method, that allows resumption of vehicular movement within two hours.…

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