Aug 20, 2020, 5:56 PM IST
With rains lashing the city and increase in potholes that has caused damage to life and properties in the past, BBMP commissioner N Manjunath Prasad has given the BBMP zonal engineers a 15-day deadline to fix the pothole issue.
The commissioner, mentioning that the BBMP’s dependency on contractors and agencies supplying hot bitumen mix to fix roads will end, said the civic body has come up with its own plant in a 4.5 acre land that can produce about 50 to 60 truckloads of material to fix potholes or asphalt the roads
To ensure the issues are addressed on time, the commissioner says, he will have a weekly review meeting.