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Mumbai’s civic body, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), erstwhile again recovered itself successful the mediate of contention implicit the mediocre prime of the Mrinaltai Gore flyover hold successful Mumbai’s Goregaon. The Opposition criticised BJP Mayor Ritu Tawade connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026), demanding an autarkic enquiry into the ₹248 crore project.
The Leader of Opposition (LoP) successful BMC, Shiv Sena (UBT) person Kishori Pednekar, on with the corporators, visited the flyover, raising concerns astir the prime and outgo of the road, demanding an autarkic inquiry.
“This is an indispensable flyover built with the taxation wealth of the public. The enquiry indispensable beryllium into the accrued outgo and mediocre enactment of the bridge,” said Ms. Pednekar, calling Ritu Tawade’s inspection circuit a axenic stunt and gimmick.
A time aft the flyover’s inauguration connected Saturday (June 6, 2026), the motorist complained of mediocre prime arsenic the patches and uneven stretches appeared successful the road. The commuters took to societal media, pointing retired the mediocre prime of its roadworthy surface.
“The task should beryllium prime inspected by an autarkic 3rd party. Core Test, UPV Test and Rebound Hammer Test should beryllium conducted instantly to cheque the prime of concrete. Also, a proceedings pit should beryllium taken connected the attack roadworthy to cheque the thickness and prime of assorted layers, and the study should beryllium made public,” Ms. Pednekar added.
The magnitude of the caller limb is 750 mt and portion of Mrinaltai Gore Flyover successful Goregaon, Mumbai, an east–west connector linking the Ram Mandir area, SV Road, Link Road and the Western Express Highway corridor. The flyover hold was constructed to easiness postulation congestion betwixt Goregaon East and West and opened connected June 6, 8 years aft it was commissioned. The declaration for enlargement of the flyover was fixed successful December 2018 astatine an estimated outgo of astir ₹170 crore; connected completion, the outgo roseate to 248 crore, 45% much compared to the archetypal estimate.
After the contention broke, the BMC clarified that the joints connected the flyover hold were portion of the method operation process. The connection released by BMC’s Bridges Department stated, “It is the quality of mastic asphalt that it looks patchy and unsmooth instantly aft laying, particularly wherever it’s done manually. However, arsenic much and much vehicles ply connected the road, the aboveground starts getting adjacent and tidy,” the connection read.
The corporators from the Opposition confederation demanded that if negligence is found, strict enactment should beryllium taken against the applicable contractors, consultants and engineers. Nationalistic Congress Party (Sharad Pawar) nationalist spokesperson Anish Gawande has besides written to Ashwini Bhide, the BMC commissioner, demanding that the surface-quality trial information beryllium released.
Two years ago, BMC got caught successful a akin contention wherever the commuter complained that determination was a mismatch successful tallness and alignment to link the recently opened Gokhale span with the C.D. Barfiwala Flyover successful Mumbai’s Andheri.
