In a shocking revelation, city NGO Parisar has found that the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) spends a whopping 59 per cent of its transport budget of Rs 986 crores on constructing flyovers and road widening and only 16 per cent on buying buses. According to the Parisar study, the money allocated to transportation is more than the funds allocated to education, health, sanitation and slum rehabilitation all put together. Parisar founder director, Sujit Patwardhan said, “We are only getting better and better at moving private vehicles, even as lakhs of people continue to remain stranded on the road. This clearly shows the civic body favours the contractors over the commuters.”
