PMC awaits MoD nod to widen vital road in Khadki

  • | Sunday | 23rd September, 2018

With a nod for the metro route, the administration now expects a positive response soon, an civic official said.“We are ready with the plan to widen the road. We have provided all the necessary details to the ministry of defence (MoD). Meetings have been held on the proposal in the presence of officials from the state union urban affairs department and the MoD. A nod will help push ahead the remaining civil work on the stretch,” a PMC official said.The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has completed work on the BRTS route up to Dapodi. PUNE: With the defence ministry giving a go-ahead to the Metro work in Khadki a few days ago, the civic administration is expecting a similar response to its proposal to hand over land in the area for widening the old Pune-Mumbai highway.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has demanded land to widen the road and extend the BRTS route until Harris bridge so as to further connect it to Nigdi-Dapodi BRTS.Sources in the civic body said that a proposal has already been mooted before the ministry a few months ago.

PUNE: With the defence ministry giving a go-ahead to the Metro work in Khadki a few days ago, the civic administration is expecting a similar response to its proposal to hand over land in the area for widening the old Pune-Mumbai highway.The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has demanded land to widen the road and extend the BRTS route until Harris bridge so as to further connect it to Nigdi-Dapodi BRTS.Sources in the civic body said that a proposal has already been mooted before the ministry a few months ago. With a nod for the metro route, the administration now expects a positive response soon, an civic official said.“We are ready with the plan to widen the road. We have provided all the necessary details to the ministry of defence (MoD). Meetings have been held on the proposal in the presence of officials from the state union urban affairs department and the MoD. A nod will help push ahead the remaining civil work on the stretch,” a PMC official said.The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has completed work on the BRTS route up to Dapodi.

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