India, Oct. 1 -- After a four-month lull owing to the monsoon, concretisation of roads in the city will commence once again on Wednesday, additional municipal commissioner (roads) Abhijeet Bangar told Hindustan Times.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will first tackle 574 partly concretised roads before taking up another 776 new roads for concretisation, Bangar said. Roads narrower than 12 metres may not be concretised to avoid inconveniencing people, he noted.

"The plan is not to not concretise the narrower roads, but to hold off concretisation considering individual circumstances, especially as road work when done simultaneously at many places causes huge inconveniences to people," the additional municipal commissioner sai...