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The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has spent close to INR 370 crore on repairing potholes and damaged roads across Nashik city over the past four financial years, civic officials told the general body. Expenditure in the current fiscal could touch INR 200 crore. The figures, disclosed by city engineer Sanjay Agrawal in response to corporators' queries, drew criticism from members who alleged the administration had failed to carry out timely pre-monsoon repairs, resulting in poor road conditions across the city this year.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has spent nearly INR 370 crore on repairing potholes and damaged roads across Nashik city over the past four financial years, while expenditure on road repairs in the current fiscal could touch INR 200 crore, civic officials told the general body.
Responding to queries raised by corporators, city engineer Sanjay Agrawal said the NMC spent INR 107 crore in financial year 2022-23, INR 110 crore in FY 2023-24, INR 128 crore in FY 2024-25, and INR 25.5 crore in FY 2025-26, taking the cumulative expenditure to around INR 370 crore over the four-year period.
Officials attributed the comparatively low expenditure in FY 2025-26 to an early onset of the monsoon in May, which continued through October, limiting the window available for maintenance works during that year.
The figures prompted criticism from corporators, who alleged that the civic administration had failed to carry out timely pre-monsoon repairs, resulting in poor road conditions across the city this year. Several members accused the administration of responding to damaged roads only after public complaints mounted, rather than undertaking preventive maintenance ahead of the monsoon season.
The disclosure comes as Nashik continues to grapple with recurring road deterioration linked to monsoon damage and underlying utility work, with civic officials having separately flagged repair drives targeting stretches excavated for pipeline and utility installations across localities such as Panchavati, Gangapur Road, Nashik Road and Nashik West, where poorly restored trenches left by service providers have caused uneven surfaces and heightened accident risk for commuters.
The scale of repeated annual spending has also raised questions among corporators over the durability of repair work carried out in previous years, with members pointing out that stretches repaired in one financial year frequently reappear on the list of damaged roads within a year or two, suggesting that a significant share of the cumulative INR 370 crore may have gone toward addressing recurring, rather than one-time, damage. Officials, in response, have pointed to the combination of heavy monsoon rainfall, underlying utility excavation and vehicular load as factors that continue to erode road surfaces faster than routine maintenance cycles can address.
With road repair expenditure expected to rise again this fiscal to around INR 200 crore, the general body's exchange underscores continuing scrutiny over the civic body's approach to preventive versus reactive road maintenance, as corporators press for a shift toward more timely intervention ahead of future monsoon seasons rather than repair work undertaken largely in response to public complaints.
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