Summary:
Mumbra ward has the next highest volume of damaged roads in Thane with 675sqm of holes while Majiwada that sees a huge traffic of heavy vehicles passing has nearly 375sqm of potholes on roads. “I have asked officials to take up repairs of roads marred with potholes without waiting to ascertain if it is maintained by any other agency like MSRDc, PWD, etc. The city has around 385kms of roads.Of these, Diva ward has the highest volume of potholes in the city with around 80% or 6,395sqm of the total volume of potholes reported by the public works department of the TMC. “I had filed an RTI asking the amount spent on road repairs but there was no reply. They have asked me to file RTI to individual ward committees and projects separately..