NASHIK: The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has issued notices to around 70 developers and industrialists for failing to maintain traffic islands within the city that were originally entrusted to them by the civic body.
Under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative, the NMC has developed a total of 100 traffic islands on a build, develop, repair, and maintain basis. Formal agreements, outlining a 10-year maintenance period and royalty payments to the NMC, were established with these developers.
However, a significant number of these traffic islands are not being adequately maintained. Consequently, the NMC has served notices on 70 developers, demanding that they undertake the necessary repairs and maintenance as per their agreements.
An NMC official said the focus of the civic administration is to keep the city clean and beautiful. “The administration wants to beautify the traffic islands at all the major chowks in the city under the CSR. Accordingly, the expression of interest was floated around two to three years back, and the traffic islands were handed over to the developers concerned. The administration had also signed agreements with these developers and private firms,” the official said.
“If the developers fail to maintain them properly, then we will maintain them on our own. We have also told them to pay the pending royalty,” the official added.
