BMC, Railways officials inspect Ram Mandir Road after HT report
Hindustan TimesMumbai: Following a Hindustan Times report on the plight of citizens forced to traverse the 200-metre pothole-filled stretch outside Ram Mandir railway station, whose maintenance was under a cloud with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and Western Railway passing the buck to each other, officials from both agencies visited the site on Wednesday and conducted a joint inspection. The civic body also put up a barricade to prevent vehicles from entering the stretch and to make it safe for pedestrians The BMC also began temporary repair work on this stretch on Wednesday, filling the potholes with sand and stones, and levelling the road. Although it is private land, we have initiated some temporary remedial work.” On September 21, HT published a report highlighting a citizen’s efforts to pin the agency responsible for maintaining the road outside the station, which receives heavy footfall with a business park in the vicinity. While the civic body responded saying the road is under railway’s jurisdiction, the latter’s response on the Rail Madad app was that the onus was not on the railway department, she said.
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