Pune: Six years after the report to raise alarms in the vulnerable area of ​​landslides in Pune, the administration has not taken full awareness of detailed research compiled for 23 villages in the high-risk area in four talucas.
While administration believes that it has committed the construction of safety walls according to the report, villagers demand permanent settlements such as those carried out in the case of Malin Village which was buried under landslides in 2014.
Detailed reports submitted by universities.
Pune (CoEP) technique in 2016 concerning instructions for regional disaster management authorities.
Pune District Administration is allocated RS 3.65 Crore for this project by the state government.
This report was based on a survey of 23 villages of landslides in the district after testing land and analyzing the stability of the slopes for each site.
It also marks 10 of these villages as very vulnerable to landslides.
However, according to the district administration, there are rigid opposition from villagers to shift to safer locations and they also demand permanent residence as they do in the case of Malin.
Such demands delayed the implementation of the plan, said a district official.
According to the District Administration, a meeting was held in February this year to take a stock of the situation.
“The construction of safety walls to prevent landslides began in five villages in Maval Taluka and one village in Bhor.
The remaining villages demand full rehabilitation.
Residents want a permanent residence and it has delayed the implementation of the plan.
In addition, the Department of Public Works that carried out work It said the two villages listed in a report at Maval Taluka, Bhushi and Velhe, did not need to have a wall.
These demands have slowed work, “said a district administrative official.
Administration will now be forced to consider rehabilitation requests separately and safe funds for it, he added Coep Professor B Birajdar said their report was very detailed after the assessment of all these villages in 2016.
It gives a remedial slope report and suggested.
for 23 of these villages.
“We have provided a proposal for 10 very important locations.
We want to help administration in execution, but we do not know the progress of our report on the implementation,” he said.