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Pune Tragedy: Child Drowns in Open Water pit Near Ghorpadi Flyover, Dies

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: April 2, 2025 10:09 IST

Pune Municipal corporation has claimed that all kinds of safety measures are taken while doing the work of flyover ...

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Pune Municipal corporation has claimed that all kinds of safety measures are taken while doing the work of flyover work in Ghorpadi. However, these claims were false after a boy fell in a pit full of water and died by drowning. This incident has raised the safety concerns and questions about how did boy go there?  The Municipal Corporation's Project Department has taken up the work of constructing a flyover on the Miraj railway line in Ghorpadi. ​​A pit has been dug by the contractor behind the Sai Baba temple for the flyover pillars. However, a sewage pipe burst while digging the pit and the pit filled with contaminated water. Due to this, the work was stopped. Meanwhile, on March 29, a child named Krish Subhash Angarkar (9, Ra. Khan Road, near Racecourse) drowned in the water in the pit.

After this incident, Municipal Corporation officials inspected the scene. 'There was a sheet barricading around the pit work, a high mound of soil on one side and a security guard was posted,' the Municipal Corporation has claimed. "No one goes there except security guards and contractor workers," it has been clarified. Security was taken care of at this place, so how did the boy go there? If the security guard was on duty, questions have started to arise as to why he did not stop the boy from going to the pit. The incident is being investigated by the police.

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Pune Water Cut 

Meanwhile Pune city to experience disruption in water supply on Thursday April 3. This Water cut is announced for the maintenance and repair work at various water tanks and water channels of Municipal corporation. As per the information provided by a Water Supply Department the supply will be resumed on Friday 4th April morning but at low pressure.

The affected areas are New and Old Parvati Water Purification Center and under it Parvati MLR Tank Area, Parvati HLR Tank Area and Parvati LLR Tank Area, Parvati Tanker Point, Bhama Askhed, Lashkar Jal Kendra, Holkar Jal Kendra, Badgaon Jal Kendra, Rajiv Gandhi Pumping Katraj, Kedareshwar Tank, Mahadevnagar Tank, Agam Mandir Tank, Shrihari Tank, Khadakwasla Jackwell, Warje Phase No. 1 and 2, Warje Jal Kendra, SNDT, HLR, Chandni Chowk Tank, Gandhi Bhavan Tank, PAN Card Club GSR Tank, Warje GSR Tank, Khadakwasla Raw Water, Ganpati Matha and Old Warje Jal Kendra, SNDT (MLR), Chaturyugi Tank, Kondve Dhaade Jal Kendra and Raw Water etc. will be closed for electrical and pumping maintenance work on Thursday.

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