Metro project,devp authority on priority list: Chavan to MLAs

The meeting saw the MLAs discuss a number of projects and proposals related to the city such as the proposed Pune metro rail project,ring road,city’s Development Plan and the inclusion of new villages into the Pune Municipal Corporation,the CM was keen to speed up the metro proposal as well as the PMRDA,said MLA Chandrakant Mokate who attended the two hour long meeting.

The CM in his interaction said that the state government fully supports the project and by end of the month the proposal will be forwarded to the central government for its approval while the state government would make budgetary provisions. The PMC standing committee had decided to build the metro railway on the said corridor wherein the estimate cost of the project was slated to be Rs 2,281 crore wherein the civic body will contribute 10 per cent and get 40 per cent from the state and centre and source the rest from private parties. Mokate said that the CM was keen to find out the hurdles which were delaying the implementation of the PMRDA as well as has sought details on the delay. The chief minister has also asked the PMC to present details of the ring road to the state government and has instructed the PMC to ensure that garbage generated in the city is processed in the city limits. However there was no progress on the issue of BDP. The CM has asked the PMC to present the old DP for the old city before May 31.

Vinayak Nimhan (Congress),Bapu Pathare (NCP),Mahadeo Babar and Chandrakant Mokate (Shiv Sena),Girish Bapat and Madhuri Misal(BJP),Ramesh Wanjale and three MLCs including Mohan Joshi,Dipti Chaudhary (Congress),Neelam Gorhe (Shiv Sena) and Anil Bhosale (NCP) attended the meet.