PMC floats tender for environment assessment of tunnel project
PUNE The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) will conduct a pre-feasibility and environment impact assessment (EIA) of a four-km tunnel that will link Pashan, Panchavati and Kothrud. The PMC, on Monday, floated a tender for for the same.
The project was announced in 2017, to ease traffic problems on Paud road, Senapati Bapat road and in the Shivajinagar area.
A few months ago, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar asked for work on the project to go faster.
Currently, the distance from Kothrud to Pashan is eight-and-a-half kilometres, via Chandni chowk; the same distance via Senapati Bapat road is nine-and-a-half kilometres. When the tunnel is complete, this distance will be four km.
