Pune News | Koregaon Park Lane-G residents irked by slow pace of laying storm water drainage pipes

PUNE: Pune News | The residents of Koregaon Park’s Lane-G are facing problems for the past two weeks because of the untimely and slow pace of laying of storm water drainage pipes. The work which should have happened before monsoon is being carried out now. Luckily there has been no deluge in the area.

Social worker Nilesh Mantri took an initiative and organised a meeting with PMC officials at the site because residents are facing a lot of inconvenience.

The residents pointed out their problems to the officials and brought to their notice, the improper way in which the work was being done making the lane unsafe.

PMC officials from Road and Drainage departments and Dhole Patil ward office Ashok Zuluk, Megha Lavande, Siddharam Patil, Koli along with others visited the spot and attended the meeting.

The immediate fallout of the meeting was:

1. Immediate removal of debris and levelling of the road

2. Repairs where ever lines have been damaged

3. More workers will be deployed for speedy completion of the work

4. Further road digging will be temporarily stopped till above work is done

5. All work will be completed in four days.

The President of Vithalrao Vandekar Foundation and Mohalla committee member, Dhairyashil Vandekar, said that since the past two weeks, the work for laying storm water drainage pipes is going on in Lane-G in Koregaon Park. The work has been going on at a very slow pace as very few workers were engaged. Half of the lane was unusable because of the digging and soil mounds. Vandekar pointed out that the Lane-G had become extremely slippery and accident prone because of this and that the muck gets carried into the societies making their premises dirty and slippery. Many two-wheeler riders have slipped in the lane of the South Main Road junction. Vandekar demanded speedy completion of the work.

Another resident Samir Roopani asked why the infrastructure work carried out by the PMC needs periodic repairs. He demanded that there should be accountability while the work is being carried out.

Sunil Sehgal, another resident, complained about the slow pace of work without any supervision by the civic body. He pointed out the need of placing no parking boards in Lane-G and suitable action by the traffic police.

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