In the wake of the civic engineers being issued show cause notices over delay in repairing the potholes in the city, it has now been revealed that BMC has also fined road repair contractors. Incidentally, following the issuance of show cause notice, the association of BMC engineers had asked BMC to also take action against contractors.

BMC had issued notices to 13 sub-engineers responsible for maintaining roads. Notices were issued on grounds that there was delay in repairing of potholes. mid-day reported on July 25 about the association of civic engineers writing to Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani seeking action against contractors, too. 
On Friday, BMC officially declared that from June 1 to July 25, fines to the tune of Rs 50.53 lakh have been imposed on contractors for failure to maintain roads. This fine will be collected from the deposit of the contractors.