The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) administrator A K Pandey held a meeting with the office-bearers of various bicycle associations in the city at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Research Centre, this morning. The commissioner of police (CP) Nikhil Gupta also attended the meeting.
The meeting was a part of an initiative under Smart City Mission, Cycles4Change. Hence the Aurangabad Smart City Development Corporation Limited (ASCDCL) invited the bicycle associations to discuss and select the place for developing cycle tracks in the city.
Pandey underlined his plan to reserve the central portion of the white topping roads (proposed to be built) for bicyclists. " Many citizens are desirous to ride a bicycle to get their daily work done, but due to non-availability of dedicated space for a bicycle track, they face problems and do not dare to do so. Hence the cycle track is needed for the hour," said the administrator.
Gupta appreciated the move of AMC and the cycle-lovers for showing interest. He announced the provision of providing traffic police while conducting a Handlebar survey for cycle tracks.
The office-bearers and members of Aurangabad District Cycling Association, Get Going and other organisations were present on occasion.
Pandey recommended forming a surveying team comprising members of bicycle organisation and Smart City office. He instructed to complete the survey in the next seven days and submit the report to him.
The members of bicycle lovers present on occasion made various suggestions. Cycling Association''s president Nikhil Kacheswar, secretary Charanjeet Singh, Aurangabad Connect team''s Sarang
Takalkar, Rajkumar Malani, Rupesh Shinde, Pranav Mahajan, Uma Mahajan, Nitin Ghorpade, Ashish Gadekar, Pallavi Devere, Shrinivas Deshmukh, Vijay Vibhute and others were present in the meeting.