Updated On: 14 June, 2024 07:20 AM IST | Mumbai | Prajakta Kasale
New system aims to provide accurate data on pothole locations, sizes, and repair efforts
Potholed Goregaon-Mulund link road. File Pic/Anurag Ahire
If all goes according to plan, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), will start using a dashboard to trace the filling of potholes this monsoon. Though the dashboard is only for the administration level for now, the BMC officers claimed that it will help improve roads in the city. The dashboard will not only provide the number of potholes but also locations and sizes of it, even the amount of asphalt used and the time required to fill it.
After the successful implementation of a dashboard for COVID-19 patients and hospital beds during the pandemic, the BMC is trying to use the technique in other departments. The latest one is the roads department which will use it to get real-time data of potholes. The department tried to use it to track the progress of roads also, but the results were not made public. Now the corporation is trying to use a dashboard technique for potholes.