Pune Mayor Manjusha Nagpure sought a detailed clarification from the Pune Municipal Corporation administration on road construction, repair funding and infrastructure needs after civic members raised the death of a 16-year-old girl in an accident on the Katraj-Kondhwa road at the corporation’s general body meeting on Thursday. The administration’s response, however, did not address the four specific points listed by the mayor, according to a report by Loksatta – Pune.
The meeting was held at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hall in the Pune Municipal Corporation’s new building under Nagpure’s chairpersonship. At the start of the session, members of the Congress, Nationalist Congress Party and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) raised the accident on the Katraj-Kondhwa road and questioned the administration over the condition and development of the route.
PMC city engineer Aniruddha Pawaskar appeared before the general body to respond on behalf of the administration. Before the clarification began, Nagpure directed officials to provide information on four issues connected with roads and basic infrastructure in villages that have been included in the municipal corporation.
The mayor asked how much funding would be required to provide roads, footpaths and other essential facilities in the newly merged villages. She also sought details of the amount allocated for these works in the PMC’s current-year budget. The other questions concerned whether all roads could be developed at the same time and how much funding would be needed to repair roads that already exist.
According to the report, Pawaskar spoke for around 45 minutes while presenting the administration’s clarification. The report said that the response did not directly address the four points raised by the mayor. This led to a situation in which the mayor’s instructions appeared not to have been answered during the general body meeting.
The discussion placed the Katraj-Kondhwa road within a wider civic debate over the pace of road repairs and the availability of funds for infrastructure in areas added to the municipal limits. The meeting did not establish, in the material available, a final funding figure, a complete road-repair schedule or a decision on whether the administration would provide a further written clarification.
The mayor’s questions also sought to distinguish between the cost of creating new infrastructure in the merged villages and the funding required to repair existing roads. No final figures for either category were provided in the report. The next formal response from the PMC administration remains the pending step following the general body discussion.
