Pune Grand Tour cycle race will help boost rural economy, says District Collector Jitendra Dudi
The Pune Grand Tour cycle race will have teams from 35 countries, including the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Bulgaria, and Australia.
The Pune Grand Tour is a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) 2.2-level race. The event will have teams from 35 countries.(Express Archive) Jitendra Dudi, District Collector, Pune, has said the upcoming Pune Grand Tour will help boost the rural economy and tourism because a significant chunk of the 437 km of roads built for the cycle race is situated in rural areas.
Around 75 km of the race will be in the Pune Municipal Corporation limits, 52 km in the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation limits, and the remaining track length in rural areas, he said in an interview with The Indian Express and Loksatta on Monday.
He said, “There are a lot of flowers in Maval. The Dutch rose is very famous and of very good quality. Farmers there are not able to export it because they have to put it in a truck and send it very delicately. And when the truck moves, it gets damaged. So he can only send it to Pune. He cannot explore the market of Europe, where during Valentine’s Day, it turns into gold. Such things that we never imagined while we were organising this tour.”
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