India, March 6 -- No more digging - Mumbai's civic body made a promise on Wednesday that citizens will hold it to. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) announced that no fresh roads will be excavated for concretisation, and that the concreting of all roads currently excavated will be completed by May 31.

The announcement came after a review meeting on ongoing infrastructure projects on Tuesday, where municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani told chief minister Devendra Fadnavis that instructions have been issued to the civic roads department to focus solely on roads that have already been dug up.

While Mumbaiites are pleased with brand new concrete roads being laid, they are utterly frustrated with the execution of the concretisat...