PCMC wants to spend another Rs2.75 crore, it has already spent Rs350 crore on Dapodi-Nigdi route.
The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to spend another Rs2.75 crore on the 13 km Mumbai-Pune highway stretch from Dapodi to Nigdi on which it has almost spent Rs350 crore over the last four years.
The entire 13-km route which was just 20-25 metres wide, was widened to 61 metres five years ago.
The civic body had spent Rs350 crore until now on this route, although the civic body received Rs120 crore from Jawaharlal Nehru National Renewal Mission (JNNURM) for the Mumbai-Pune highway development work.
In last four years, the civic administration had spent Rs15 crore merely to lay bitumen, concretisation as well as maintenance of the stretch. Now, the civic administration had floated a proposal to spend more than Rs2.75 crore on this stretch.
Municipal commissioner Ashish Sharma has tabled the proposal for approval in the standing committee. According to the engineering department of PCMC, Rs32.67 lakh will be spent on the channelising work and Rs37.33 lakh for constructing footpaths for pedestrians from Harris Bridge, Dapodi, Rs37.33 lakh for chambers repairing and constructing footpaths from Pimpri Chowk to Nigdi Octroi post and for laying bitumen from Dapodi to Nigdi stretch, Rs46 lakh tenders have been floated.
The actual work of the highway was started in 2004-05. However, the work picked up speed in recent years. At the beginning, work on the Nigdi flyover was started in 2001. After it, the civic body focused on Pimpri grade separators and road widening from Pimpri to Nashik-Phata.
It has constructed Pimpri grade separator before JNNURM sanctioned the funds to PCMC for this stretch, informed a PCMC engineering department official.
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