NHAI issues notice to establishments blocking road widening work on highway

To give free space to highways, the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Pune is taking up several steps over the last few months. Right from installing new rumblers, CCTV cameras and street lights, many infrastructural changes are been made on the ‘deadly stretch’ between the new Katraj tunnel to Navale bridge chowk. While after the Pune district collector surveyed the deadly stretch near the Navale bridge chowk, the NHAI Pune officials have now issued notices to several establishments on the highway which are creating hurdles to the highway road widening work.

Also, NHAI has suggested moving the Narhe crematorium which is just next to the highway where maximum accidents happen.

“We have sent notices to several establishments on the bypass highway which are wrongly marked in the Development Plan (DP) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and some of them are illegal constructions. These need to be removed from the highway as they are creating a hurdle for the road widening work and some of them are creating accident risks,” said one of the NHAI senior officials on request of anonymity.