The National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) on Monday guaranteed the Bombay high court that the work of repairing the Mumbai-Nashik expressway by filling up the potholes and doing the patchwork was in full progress and would be completed before October 25. The assurance by the Centre was made in response to HC’s query on the time required by the highway authority to boost the around 100-km stretch, which had become unqualified for travelling, resulting in serpentine lines of vehicles having to move at a snail’s pace. The division bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and justice Girish Kulkarni, after taking knowledge of news reports on September 24 regarding potholes on the Mumbai-Nashik highway a part of the old Mumbai-Agra Highway had asked the state and Centre to work in coordination to prevent loss of lives of commuters due to the poor condition of roads.
