Pimpri: The Indira Gandhi Flyover was constructed in 1987 on the Pune-Mumbai Highway to Pimpri Camp. For the last one year, the repair work of this bridge is going on slowly. Due to this the transport is getting disrupted and the income of the traders here is also getting affected. Now the road leading to Shagun Chowk from the flyover has been closed for repairs. The traders have demanded that the repair work should be completed in the next fifty days. Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Anna Bansode along with businessmen and administration officials inspected the place and ordered to complete the repair work at the earliest.
On this issue, a meeting of traders led by Pimpri Merchant Federation was held in Pimpri. In this, Federation President and entrepreneur Srichand Aswani apprised MLA Anna Bansode about the problems of the traders. Also, the repair work should be completed as soon as possible. A large number of traders were present, including Additional Commissioner of Municipal Corporation Vikas Dhakne, former deputy mayor and senior corporator Dabboo Aswani, former corporator Prasad Shetty, Neeraj Chawla, Sunil Chugani, Prakash Ratnani, Narayan Popatani and Anil Aswani. After this meeting, MLA Bansode, Speaker Aswani and Additional Commissioner Dhakne visited the inspection along with the traders. Inspected the repair work of Pimpri Bridge.
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work will be completed in fifty days
MLA Bansode said that there was a demand for repair of this bridge for many years. Last year there was a period of six months to repair the road from Gokul Hotel to Flyover and Morwadi Chowk to Flyover, but it took more than a year due to contractor’s delay. Now the road from the flyover to Shagun Chowk has been closed for two days and the contractor has said that the work will be completed in the next fifty days. The concerned contractor was called here. Traders are now demanding that the road work should be completed on time. He has also given the same letter to Additional Commissioner Vikas Dhakne.
encroachment should be removed immediately
Along with this, President Srichand Aswani said that all the encroachments on the squares outside the shops in Pimpri, the encroachment of traders and peddlers should be removed immediately by the Municipal Corporation and the traders should be given relief. For the last two years, Corona has put traders in financial trouble. Therefore, he has demanded immediate action to provide relief to the traders.