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PRIME Minister Narendra Modi, who is visiting Pune on August 1, will be inaugurating three development projects of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation. He will also inaugurate the much-awaited Phugewadi-to Shivajinagar stretch of the Pune Metro, which will ease travelling for hundreds of commuters.
“On August 1, the Prime Minister will inaugurate three PCMC projects,” commissioner of Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Commissioner Shekhar Singh told this paper on Tuesday.
Singh said one of the projects that would be commissioned would be the “waste to energy” plant, which has been set up at Moshi. “The plant will turn 700 tonne of waste into 14 mega watt electricity everyday,” he said.
The Prime Minister will hand over the keys of houses constructed in Borhadewadi under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana to 1,288 beneficiaries. “One of the beneficiaries will symbolically get the keys at the function,” he said.
PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone for the construction of 1,190 houses under the PMAY, which will come up at Dudolgaon. The function will be held at Shivajinagar.
At the same event, the Prime Minister will also set rolling the two stretches of the Pune Metro — one which is from Phugewadi to Shivajinagar and the other from Garware College to Ruby Hall Clinic.
Spokesperson of MahaMetro Hemant Sonawane said, “A couple of hours after the PM inaugurates the two stretches, the Metro services will start on the route on the same day.”
Unlike in the past, the Prime Minister will not be travelling by the Metro rail after inaugurating the two stretches.
Metro officials said the Phugewadi to Shivajinagar stretch is important for the hundreds of people living in Pune city who have to travel to Pimpri-Chinchwad industrial area for work and students from Pimpri-Chinchwad who have to travel to the city for their schooling.
“The Metro rail on this stretch will drastically reduce their travel time. A resident of Pimpri-Chinchwad will be able to reach Shivajinagar in 20 minutes. Currently, it takes them an hour or more to travel that distance,” officials said.
