PUNE On the one hand as the rain is preventing the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) from repairing roads with potholes, the issue is gaining momentum among political circles, threatening it to snowball in the coming elections.
PMC tried to fill up potholes on some stretches of road on Wednesday, though it had to abandon plans due to the rains. While these potholes have posed a risk to to-wheelers in the city, it has also embarrassed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which controls PMC.
The BJP’s Sandeep Khardekar issued a letter to commissioner Vikram Kumar on Thursday, with the threat of a PIL within. The letter also demanded that potholes be filled-up and roads repaired within 10 days.
Khardekar said, “Due to development and cable-laying works many roads got dug-up. Ideally, after finishing the work, it is expected that the road surfacing is done immediately. In places where work finished three months ago, the contractor has still not resurfaced the road; and the municipal officers are not bothered about it.”
Prashant Inamdar, convenor, Pedestrian First, also criticised the municipal corporation on the pothole issue. Inamdar said, “I was a member of the technical committee formed by the PMC. We prepared a detail report about road maintenance, but the administration is not following it. For any urban area, road connectivity is important.”
{{/usCountry}}Prashant Inamdar, convenor, Pedestrian First, also criticised the municipal corporation on the pothole issue. Inamdar said, “I was a member of the technical committee formed by the PMC. We prepared a detail report about road maintenance, but the administration is not following it. For any urban area, road connectivity is important.”
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