Pimpri Chinchwad plans safety measures

The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation near Pune in Maharashtra is in the process of implementing a plan to improve traffic and implement road safety measures at 50 traffic junctions. The plan was developed after a joint survey undertaken by the traffic and civic officials of the city sometime back. The plan involves improvement at traffic junctions, providing safe pedestrian crossings, creation and development of parking spaces, installation of road dividers and signage, painting of stop lines and providing road safety measures near schools. The project is estimated to cost about Rs. 3 crore.