Poll preparations: RMC to expedite pending projects

Rajkot: Amid rising Covid-19 cases in the city, the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) is trying to hasten the pending development projects and asked the contractors to expedite the work.
Elections to the municipal corporation are due this year. As many as 177 positive cases have surfaced in RMC area alone.
Municipal commissioner Udit Agarwal on Thursday visited sites of various projects in the west zone and instructed contractors to complete the work in the stipulated time limit.
In a statement, RMC said that Agarwal visited storm water drainage on Speedwell Party Plot Road, a water treatment plant, under-construction high-level bridge on water drain on Punitnagar main road, Vavdi drainage pumping station. Agarwal instructed contractors to complete the work in stipulated time limit.
Agarwal also visited the water distribution network in west zone which covers posh areas of the city like 150 ft Ring Road, Raiya Road, Kalavad Road which cover chief minister Vijay Rupani’s residence. He visited Nyari pumping station, water treatment plants at Ghanteshwar and Raiyadhar. He was also informed about Narmada water intake and natural source of rain water of Rajkot.