New panel for Mutha scheme

Subsequently, the civic administration had at its previous meeting sent back the proposal of the PRG to prepare a detailed plan for reconsideration. Raising the issue BJP Corporator Ujwal Keskar today demanded to know whether the administration had checked the cost factor and on what basis was Rs 3 crore allowed as consulting charges for the PRG.

The administration admitted its lapse on thoroughly scrutinising the financial feasibility of the project and said that the PRG organisation was registered only after the docket had been tabled. An open-air riverside theatre behind Balgandharva Rangmandir, floating restaurants, a business centre at Hingne and an amusement park were among the activities that had been proposed along the banks of the river in the plan.

Keskar objected to the proposal to sell the State Government godowns to raise money for the project when the PMC did not own the land. He further termed various points in the draft plan as fanciful. Agarwal admitted that there had been a lapse on the part of the administration and decided to devise a fresh master plan for the scheme.

Earlier, V G Dhadphale, additional city engineer water supply told the house that he had conducted a survey of the Chandanagar, Yerawada and Wadgaon Sheri areas which faced a problem of worm-infested water.