Pune: Through a chainout fence that lines the bridge above taking HIV near the Dandekar bridge intersection, the dam bell looked sorry, almost irritation for civilian officials and residents along the edge of the canal right next to it.
Part of the right side of the dam, built with heavy stones, broken lies, and water gushed through it angrily.
The slot sculptor for a gate is also empty, with water almost flowing through the channel at the legs of the dam.
Rampage of garbage disposal and sedimentation almost choked on the part, but the rest of the brick pair that formed a dam stood almost without large damage, in a curved structure that resembled fruits, which gave a name.
On both sides, the man assigned by Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) works angrily at the canal company.
They did not want repetition of flood floods in September 2019 that the community was destroyed, especially the plot, along the ODHA take.
On the day to visit the site, PMC also made an anti-encroachment drive in the area just minutes along the flow of the dam, to clean the canal channel.
Dozens of people are given homeless people.
On the right side, men only to complete the wall of a high concrete holder that will protect people who live together.
On the other hand, they are just about starting, with excavators and exercises that work far away.
Banks, and the base of the dam, are filled with food packaging, and bottle of liquor, shows that the place is quite a nest after sunset.
Small group men from slum files nearby to the bank, chatting, sharing smoke, and then leave.
In the midst of all these activities, Bel Dams sat there, lonely and unattended.
There is no plaque that marks the place, there is also no information board about the history of a piece of infrastructure that will be very important for a much smaller city more than three centuries ago.
Information is also there in small quantities of valuable in chronic city, including in a complete gaze that the British government wrote about the region detailing the lifestyle and infrastructure.
All historians have collected and conservation that may have been built during the reign of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, with most of the text and accounts referring to dam as “Shivkaalin” – from the Shivaji era.
Take PLWHA then used by Peshwas and City administrators to build a water supply system for the old city using an underground canal tissue, although later replaced by the UK using a dam system located further from the city.
“The famous historian of what is often said is that many infrastructure inside and around taking ODHA was built first by Dadi Kondadeo, perhaps during the Shivaji administration, when Pune was inhabited and expanded.
The area where Bel Dam is out of town, and thus it is Made for the ideal place for dams to store water for city residents, “Kiran Kalamdani said, a conservation architect based in Pune.