• Mr. Amit D. Gavhane
• Dr. Arun W. Dhawale

Mumbai is a Metropolitan City and Financial Capital of India. Due to job opportunities and rapid urbanization, more population is diverted to urban city like Mumbai. By virtue of increase in population and living standard, the demand for services has increased tremendously and citizens expect quality and prompt services from the Municipal Corporation and all other service providers. Further, in this competitive world, to match consumer’s needs, rates, quality and standards, a greater number of service providers are participating for each individual services. Utilities mainly comprises of water supply, drainage, electric supply, telecommunication, internet, gas lines, etc. Almost all of these utility service providers lay their cables below the road surface. Trenches are being excavated on roads for laying new utilities or for repairing faults of existing utilities. Due to high land rates and buildings being constructed at a very less distance from the edges of the roads, there is hardly any space to widen the existing roads, thereby putting limitation on availability of space below roads for laying new utilities. These services have caused great congestion below the road surface, thereby laying of new pipelines or cables has become difficult and occurrence of faults, leads to repeated excavation for carrying out repairs. Utility services deteriorate with their age. It is difficult to trace underground utilities since the visual inspection of these 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. In order to overcome the above cited problems, a ducting system along the newly constructed roads is proposed in the paper. Cost – Benefit analysis of proposed ducting system is carried out by considering a reference stretch of 1000m road and then compared with the existing system of laying utilities.

"A Cost - Effective Tool of Utility Management in Mumbai", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no.j544-j549, May-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205A71.pdf

"A Cost - Effective Tool of Utility Management in Mumbai", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 5, page no. ppj544-j549, May-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2205A71.pdf