Nashik: CBS-Canada Corner Road Dug Up Four Months After Concreting, Corporator Dr Hemlata Patil Halts Work |VIDEO
Nashik: The road between CBS and Canada Corner in Nashik city was concreted only four months ago. However, it has come to light that the road is being dug up again. This incident proves that the Municipal Corporation's claim that "roads would not need to be dug up again" has turned out to be hollow. Upon noticing that the road was being excavated for a Smart City Company project, Corporator Dr…
In Nashik, the road situated between CBS and Canada Corner was only concreted four months ago. Surprisingly, the road is now being dug up once more. This situation undermines the Municipal Corporation's assurance that roads will not require re-excavation. Upon spotting workers excavating the road for a Smart City Company project, Corporator Dr Hemlata Patil intervened and stopped the work.
Dr Patil quickly arrived at the scene after hearing about the excavation near Kulkarni Garden. When asked, the workers claimed the excavation was being performed by a contractor. The task involved laying utility lines for a Smart City Company project, yet no Municipal Corporation engineer or Smart City Company representative was present at the site.
This has led to questions about why extensive planning for utilities was not prioritized before the new road's construction. With several development projects in progress in Nashik ahead of the Simhastha Kumbh Mela, residents are experiencing considerable inconvenience due to the frequent road excavations for gas pipelines, main water pipes, and fiber-optic cables.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation often asserts that they safeguard against future excavations by allocating space for utilities during road construction. However, this incident along the CBS-Canada Corner route questions the efficacy of such planning. Dr Hemlata Patil accused the municipality of squandering public funds, pointing out that a road costing lakhs of rupees, constructed only a few months ago, is now being dismantled.
She halted the excavation and had the excavated portion refilled with soil. She demanded an inquiry into the work, insisted that operations should only resume with written permission from the Commissioner, and called for the repaired road excavated by the Smart City contractor. Dr Patil posed several queries: why were utility ducts for CCTV not planned prior to concreting the road?
Why was the road that was just four months old dug up again? Why were no engineers from the Municipal Corporation or Smart City project present at the site? And who bears responsibility for this oversight in planning?
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