Whether it's potholes or water-logging, mosquitoes multiplying or unsafe electricity poles, MiD DAY is coming to your neighbourhood to listen to your monsoon-related problems and get these fixed by the PMC

Gunjan Talkies signal roads, footpath go under water because of choked drains, uneven surface
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ON Day 2 of the MiD DAY campaign to identify monsoon-related problems and fix them in association with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), the busy Gunjan Talkies traffic signal that you have to pass on the way to the airport was surveyed. Water-logging was found to be a big monsoon-related problem in the vicinity of the signal, both on the road going left from the signal and leading to the Lohegaon airport past the Gunjan talkies, and the one that goes straight past the signal on to Viman Nagar. During rush hour, it is bumper-to-bumper traffic on these roads, and water-logging compounds the problem.

Survey results and proposed solutions

In front of Sargam Hotel
Problem:u00a0 Right in front of the hotel gates, there is an open drain filled with debris. When it rains, water accumulates on the road because of the choked drain and the hotel gate being at some height from the road. Hotel manager Naidu said, "There is stagnant water in front of our gate as it can not flow away." The offending drain was not covered and had plastic packets and paper clogging its mouth. The Sangamwadi ward office is bang opposite this point.

PMC's promise: N L Karale, PMC executive engineer, inspected the open drain and immediately called officials from the ward office. S N Pagare, assistant engineer at the ward office, said, "We will start work on this storm water drain in 72 hours and will complete it in eight days."