NMMC Discovers Potholes Ahead of Ganeshotsav
“Navi Mumbai's civic body will repair roads just in time for the festival, passing the bill to other sleepwalking agencies.”
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Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) has experienced its annual pre-festival awakening, noticing that the city's roads are less asphalt and more crater. According to the source report, the civic body has pledged to fill these voids ahead of Ganeshotsav, ensuring that the idols do not suffer the same spinal trauma as daily commuters.
Rather than wait for the actual owners of these roads—PWD, MSRDC, NHAI, and APMC—to find their road-laying equipment, NMMC will do the job itself. They plan to geo-tag the potholes, presumably to leave a digital memorial of where the road used to be, and then recover the costs from the respective agencies.
What actually happened
NMMC announced pothole repairs on major roads for Ganeshotsav.
Prioritized immersion routes will have their potholes geo-tagged.
Costs will be billed to the agencies actually responsible for those road stretches.
Why it's civic nonsense
It takes a religious festival for multiple civic and state agencies to acknowledge a city-wide infrastructure collapse.
Multi-agency jurisdiction means nobody fixes the road until a single body steps in and demands reimbursement.
What should happen?
Consolidate road maintenance under a single municipal authority.
Implement year-round road maintenance rather than festival-triggered patch jobs.
Source
Navi Mumbai Potholes: NMMC To Repair Major Roads Ahead Of Ganeshotsav 2026, Recover Costs From Agencies
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