Sigh of relief to Ganesh Mandals, no more barricading till Ganapati: MahaMetro

Last updated Aug 25, 2018

NP NEWS NETWORK

Pune

Ganapati Bappa, Maharashtra’s dearest God is just a few days away from his arrival and the city of Pune is ]very excited and enthusiastic to welcome him. Punekars have started making grand preparations for the same.

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Meanwhile, the city has been crowded with Metro Pillars and the construction of Metro stations have been going on throughout the city are going which has created a tensed situation for the Ganesh Utsav organizers. They are worried that the celebrations of this festival might create hurdles in the rallies which they are about to organize.

The progress of the work of metro has already slowed down due to heavy rains, and in amidst of all, Metro authorities have decided to put a break on the metro works till the Ganesh festival ends.

In a meeting which was held between Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MahaMetro) and Ganesh Mandals of Karve and Paud road, Maharashtra MahaMetro announced that there will be no more barricading on Karve road and Paud road till the end of Ganesh festival. The decision was taken to prevent causing trouble to the commoners and the Ganesh Mandals.

The Metro Corporation said that because of the Metro work, the area wise width of the roads will get reduced resulting in reducing area for the rallies to be held. Ganesh Mandals were more worried about that passage of their decorated vehicles through these roads on the last day of the festival.

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But, to their relief, here will no new barricades on these two roads till the end of this festival. Some Mandals requested to reduce the size of barricades or remove these barricades at least on last day of the rally. “But it is not possible to remove that barricades, so MahaMetro appealed to Mandals to keep the low size of the decorated vehicles on last days of rallies.” said by MahaMetro’s officer Atul Gadgil. He further added ‘Some Mandals agreed with our decision and further discussion will take place with traffic police’.

“MahaMetro is extremely sensitive to Public safety issues at every stage of the project. While monitoring construction activity, we found that noise, vibration, air quality, water, is a routine to the construction works of Pune Metro. Henceforth, we have appealed Ganesh Mandals to cooperate on festivals, to prevent hardship to citizens” a senior MahaMetro official said.