By Sachin Godambe (ACTIVIST & ADVOCATE)

I've been following up on this faulty speed breakers issue from last more than 10-15 years but very little action is taken till date to rectify them and make them compliant as per IRC norms regarding slope, distance between 2 speed breakers sign boards, taking traffic police permission etc.

Municipal authorities & contractors keep building these faulty speed breakers which are illegal construction & should be either regularised or demolished. Without proper slope, citizens keep hurting themselves with minor to major injuries, sometimes even deaths too. Human bones & vehicles parts gets damaged due to these faulty speed breakers.

I've asked Police & Civic Commissioners many times to slap Attempt to Murder charges against contractors & officials responsible for raising such illegal & faulty speed breakers without following any due process.

Even after too many emails, online complaints on PCMC's Sarathi helpline and after many followup, very little action was taken for correction of almost all faulty speed breakers & citizens keep suffering its brunt. I've also written to Govt. of India's Ministry of Road Transport to look into this but little action is taken.

It's high time authorities should realise importance of this issue & correct almost 99% faulty & illegal speed breakers across the state.

As per 2005 Bombay High court order, PMC & PCMC has done very little to repair or remove illegal speed breakers. I have written many times to both Pune & PCMC Municipal Commissioners & also to Police to slap cases of attempt to murder u/s 304 (A) of IPC for raising these illegal speed breakers due to lots of deaths & severe injuries kept happening from time to time.

Requesting again to Kindly take strict action on this public issue immediately.

Issued in Public Interest by

Adv. Sachin Godambe (B.Sc MCM LLB)

(Social Activist & Freelance Journalist)

Pune