PUNE: Pune district collector Rajesh Deshmukh Thursday morning visited the ‘deadly stretch’ of highway between new Katraj tunnel and Navale bridge and inspected the works being carried out by the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Last Thursday (February 17), Deshmukh had held a meeting with the concerned governing bodies and taken a review of this accident-prone stretch. During the meeting, instructions were given to install big-size rumblers and actual work on the same in now underway.
“Thursday morning, I, along with the NHAI, PMC, police department and RTO officials visited the highway road starting from Navale bridge chowk via Dari pul bridge, New Katraj tunnel to Khed Shivapur toll naka. The purpose of this ground visit was to understand what exactly are the issues due to which accidents are taking place: in this, we checked the ongoing work on signage boards and service roads, encroachments around the highway, garbage on the highway and nullahs and their barricading, and the Narhe crematorium space on the highway,” Deshmukh said.
