A group of residents has alleged that the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is felling trees and carrying out “unscientific dredging and dumping” on the left bank of the Mula river, near Pimple Nilakh, at the Ramnadi-Mula confluence in violation of the Supreme Court-appointed Central Empowered Committee’s (CEC) directions.

This is the stretch where construction activity is underway for the River Rejuvenation Project (originally called Riverfront Development Project or RFD). The residents allege the civic body’s activities are changing the flow of rivers.

In a letter addressed to Mula-Ramnadi River Rejuvenation Committee Chairman Chandrakant Phulkundwar, residents Shailaja Deshpande, Pushkar Kulkarni, Prachi Waklye, and Shubha Kulkarni have said that the tree felling and const

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