Commuters travelling on roads in Borivli are fuming over three-foot-tall grills installed in the middle of roads to safeguard manholes. The civic body has put these grills to safeguard manholes which are buried under the road and need repairing before safety nets are installed, as per directions of the Bombay High Court.

The deadline for installing safety nets on manholes was May 31. According to the HC order, the BMC was required to install safety nets on both sewers and stormwater drains across the city by May 31. BMC officials claimed that they have covered most of the manholes, except those which were buried under infrastructure work carried out by other agencies.