Juhu residents form a team to supervise work on 72 roads

Residents of the area have now come together to build an 8-member team to supervise the relaying of at least six roads, slated to take place soon, HT reports.

Tired of the never-ending bumpy rides on potholed roads despite crores of taxpayers’ money being spent every year, residents of Juhu have now decided to repeat a successful experiment conducted a decade ago to make sure they get better roads. Citizens of ward 63, in Juhu, have decided to revisit a previous successful attempt in monitoring and supervising road work in their area-a move they are confident will make their roads last longer. This audit will take off in January.

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Residents of the area have now come together to build an 8-member team, which will be supervising the relaying of at least six roads, slated to take place soon. These roads will be re-laid under the Rs.363-crore project, to relay 72 roads in the western suburbs. This team will be having a civil engineer on board, who will be overseeing the roadwork and directing the residents’ efforts.

Utsal Karani, a part of the team, who had also audited roads in the first experiment they had conducted about a decade back, said the team would start work soon. “We are in talks with a civil engineer who would periodically inspect all these roads in the ward, so that there is a check on the activities of both the contractor and the BMC’s actions.”