NMC, road-concerting agencies without power pole change, infrastructure
Nagpur: In 2001, 47 roads had been widened by Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) without shifting electric poles, transformers, etc., which later resulted in road damage. Through concretizing those roads without moving electric poles and utilities, the civic body and other government agencies are now repeating the same mistake.
A month ago, under the CM Special Fund, NMC concretized and extended a stretch of Sonegaon main road. On one side of the road on Sonegaon basti square, an electric transformer is now on the road.
A number of electric poles on the side of the old road are now in the carriageway on the same stretch. The stretch was about 9 meters wide earlier. Now the poles are covered completely by sheets of concrete pavers. They’re now a motorists threat.
At Sahakar Nagar, it’s the same. Here a six-meter wide path was concretized with blocks of pavers on either side for three metres. There are now many electric poles and a transformer in this extra three-meter field.
In Civil Lines, the situation on WCL Road is worse. MahaMetro is concretizing the stretch from the Maharashtra Jeevan Pradhikaran (MJP) office to the WCL road T-point to Telangkhedi Hanuman Mandir to Futala lake with the help of funds approved by the State’s Public Works Department.
