PUNE, Nov 3: There is many a slip between the cup and the lip. So Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) discovered to its chagrin when it tied up with BPL Mobile for erecting railings at M G Road. Two months have passed since the company finally offered to do the railings at M G Road and progress on the work has been very slow.Board president Brig Madan Gopal expressed serious misgivings over the slow pace of work by the company and issued a stern warning that he may be forced to review the deal with the company on November 6, if the company did not respond to the board's appeals and did not speed up the pace of the work.According to Brig. Madan Gopal, the company was to complete work long before Diwali. However, there seemed to be little sign of the work being completed on schedule, he observed, adding that this was badly affecting the pace of the board's beautification plan for M.G. Road.``We cannot place the planters and plan for the flower beds unless the railings are complete,'' he told The Indian Express. After a prolonged struggle for more than a decade, PCB succeeded in evicting the hawkers from M.G. Road in November last year. The hawkers have been shifted to Fashion Street off Gen. Thimayya Road following which the board had formed a beautification committee to decide upon a final plan for M.G. Road. This included cutting the size of the pavements, installing planters and flower beds on the sides of the street. However, the poor response from the corporates forced the board to shelve its plan for Agra Red stone tiles since the cost had escalated to Rs 75 lakh. The board has now installed normal tiles.
