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PUNE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has opposed the Pune Municipal Corporation’s decision to appoint Engineers India Limited (EIL) to conduct
the technical audit of development
works carried out under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) scheme.

Speaking to mediapersons on Saturday, BJP corporator and leader of the party in PMC, Vikas Mathkari said, “On October 24, the JNNURM cell of the PMC wrote to EIL asking them to conduct technical audit of the civic works. The civic body will pay 0.5 per cent amount of the total project cost to the company for conducting the audit. This is an unnecessary move, as a majority of the works under the JNNURM are either complete or under way”.

Mathkari added that the PMC should have appointed the technical audit consultant before a project began. “The civic body has appointed IL&FS and other consultants to monitor projects. There is no need to appoint another consultant for JNNURM works.”
The PMC is planning to initiate technical audits of some of the major roads developed recently. This includes the airport road, Sancheti hospital road, Bajirao road, Pashan-Sus road, Shivaji road, Bajirao road, Nehru road and Sinhagad road.
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