No newly paved road in Mumbai can be dug, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ordered on Wednesday and directed civic officials to finish all road concretisation work in the city before May 31. In a release, BMC said the civic commissioner and state-appointed administrator Bhushan Gagrani recently issued strict directives concerning the roads. Once a road is constructed, no digging and trenching would be allowed on it, said the corporation. Instructions have also been issued not to dig any new road for concretisation, it said. As per the release, the civic body has issued work orders for cement concretisation of 324 km (698 roads) in the island city and 377 km (1,420 roads) in the eastern and western suburbs of Mumbai.
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