International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 08 Issue: 05 | May 2021 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2021, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 7.529 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 484 Utility Management on Major Road Mumbai A.D. Gavhane 1 , Dr. A.W. Dhawale 1 Student, ICOER, Pune, Maharashtra, India 2 Proffesor, ICOER, Pune, Maharashtra, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - In Mumbai, Pipelines/Cables of almost all utilities are laid underground, generally below the road surface including the Carriage way and Footpaths. By virtue of increase in population and living standard, the demand for services has not just increased, but also citizen expect quality and prompt services from the Municipal Corporation and all other service providers. The services with pipeline or cables laid underground are basically, water supply, drainage, electric supply, telecommunication, gas line, etc. These services have caused great congestion below the road surface, thereby laying of new pipeline or cables has become difficult and occurrence of faults requiring excavation for carrying out repairs has increased. There is not a single day when roads are not excavated for either providing utilities or attending faults of services. Some utilities in Mumbai are very old of @ 100 years. Utilities services with their age deteriorate due to lack of information about existence of old utilities. It is difficult to trace them underground since the visual inspection of the underground utilities is not possible. It is hard to determine and to estimate when to rehabilitate or replace these utilities. There are problems concerning underground utilities due to uncertainty of the location of the utilities. This problem is leading to delays, extra work orders, change orders, construction claims, contingency bidding, loss of service, property damage, etc. This lead to understand and study of new system to be formed to sustained the growth of utilities in Mumbai city. Key Words : (Utilities, Services, Ducting, Trenching, etc.) 1. INTRODUCTION Indian urban cities are seen with high growth in population, real estate and infrastructure. Cities are expanding horizontally and vertically to cope up with the urban requirements and development projects are also increasing in urban cities. With increase in the development requirements of cities, utility services like electricity, telephone, water distribution, sewerage distribution, gas lines are also increasing. Day by day utilities providers are increasing making competition among themselves to satisfy consumer needs. All utilities in Mumbai are running below road crust in zigzag manner. Roads are often dug for making new provisions and maintenance of existing utility services, causing damage to the road crust causing many problems related to road maintenance. There are more than 11 utilities department including government utilities in Mumbai having utility services to consumers. There are limitations to the co-ordination of utility service providers among themselves. Therefore it is proposed that, through study of the existing systems of utility services to understand difficulties that exist in utility service providers and to come up with solutions for the service providers, so as to cause limited damage to the roads surface. 2. SHORTCOMINGS AND PROBLEMS FACED DUE TO EXISTING SYSTEM OF LAYING UTILITIES. 2.1 Open excavation of roads Almost all the utilities lay their cables/pipes by openly excavating the road up to certain depth. Open excavation disturbs the original strata of the road, which after reinstatement do not match with the original standards. During open excavation, there is chance of damaging the already laid utilities. Damage to certain utilities like High tension cables, Gas pipelines, etc. may lead to serious accidents. 2.2 Uncertainty of locations In Mumbai certain utility agencies have GPS/GIS system for locating their cables/pipes. But there are maximum service providers which do not have system of GPS/GIS for their networks. Hence during attending faults or repair work, unnecessary extra area of roads gets excavated due to not knowing the exact location of the concerned utility. 2.3 Non co - ordination between Utility Agencies Very few utility agencies in Mumbai have their co-ordination during laying of their utility networks. Basically all the utility agencies are supposed to have regular meetings among themselves for their problems of networks. This is not followed properly. This causes frequent excavations of the same stretch of the roads by different utilities. This is the major cause for the failure of the crust of roads. 2.4 Delays in reinstatement of trenches Once the work of laying of utility is completed, reinstatement of trench should start immediately. It is seen that the reinstatement of trenches works are delayed in Mumbai, this is because, procurement of material for reinstatement in advance is not possible due to lack of space available on roads. Excavating agencies and reinstatement agencies are different and sometimes reinstatement agencies are not