PMC debris jam traffic for 5 hours

The PMC officials, who had said that the debris would be cleared by Monday, before the schools opened for the new academic year, failed to meet the deadline. Even the work of razing a couple of properties near the Nutan Marathi Vidyalaya (NMV) high school was on this afternoon.

There are five prominent schools in the vicinity of the Appa Balwant Chowk, including the NMV, Hujurpaga, New English School Ramanbaugh and SNDT Girls school. With the schools opening today, the busy square was flooded with vehicles in the noon. The vehicles moved at a snail’s pace as the partial closure of the already narrow road stretches led to a traffic bottleneck at the chowk.

The PMC had began demolition of the properties at the chowk, acquired by the land acquisition authorities attached to the district collectorate on June 5. The properties are being razed for the proposed widening of the congested chowk and the Bajirao and Kelkar road stretches.