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Banganga Renovation: Relief for Walkeshwar residents
Updated On: 20 June, 2019 08:02 AM IST | | Chetna Sadadekar
mid-day impact: Following this paper's report that the tank and surroundings were in shambles, the civic body begins repair work
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Work in progress at the Banganga chowk, Walkeshwar, on Wednesday. Pic/Bipin Kokate
BMC has finally started beautification work around Banganga tank after months of inaction. Almost two weeks after mid-day reported about the hassle for locals due to dug-up patches and debris, civic authorities said the road leading to the tank would be levelled and work on it has already started. On June 6, mid-day had reported (Banganga revamp has turned our area into a dump: Locals) that the beautification work, which started in January this year, has turned the area into a dump-yard of debris. Locals were worried that they would have to travel through muck during the rains. They have already been suffering due to the dust that emanates from the debris. The BMC had initially planned a facelift of the peripheral area and then a renovation of the tank, but all of it remains incomplete.
Locals had also complained that senior citizens did not have an alternate route to reach the Banganga periphery, as it was difficult for them to take the stairs leading to the area. The civic body had then said that underground utilities were leading to the delay, and once that issue was fixed, the road would be done up.The BMC officials had further said that after receiving an approval from the Heritage Committee, a sample patch of Basalt stone had been prepared in the periphery. But following complaints from locals it was decided that only a part of the road would be redone using Basalt.
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