Road development top priority in Pune, yet lone hot mix plant exploited beyond capacity
PUNE: Close to 10% of the civic body’s Rs 9,515-crore budget for the year 2023-24 has been allocated to road development in the city.
However, while this Rs 900 crore is being dedicated to resurfacing, repairs and building new roads, the lone hot mix plant that supplies raw material for roads across the city still remains ignored.
In fact, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) road department’s proposal to build a second hot mix plant has been nixed, with no provision made for the same even in this time’s budget.
The existing hot mix plant is located in Yerawada and is highly overused, said civic officials. It opened in December 2016 and has since then produced 8.8 lakh metric tonnes of hot mix till March this year.
