The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has started the construction of a road inside the campus of Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) and deployed a large number of workers to expedite the work. The work began after VNIT management agreed to temporarily open its 1.2 km road exclusively for two-wheelers through its campus. A senior official mentioned that NMC had initiated the project and anticipated at least three days to fully operationalise the road. The process involves demolishing a section of VNIT’s compound wall near Indian Oil petrol pump to facilitate vehicle entry. The stretch from this point to Gate No. 3 will be designated exclusively for two-wheelers, with four-wheelers prohibited.

 

At each junction, traffic police will deploy barricades and plastic cones. Traffic movement may be briefly halted during student movements for safety. The designated hours for vehicular traffic are from 9.30 am to 11.30 am and 5 pm to 7 pm. A notification regarding this has been issued by DCP Traffic Shashikant Satav, which will remain enforced until August 15. The route for vehicular traffic is as follows: vehicles coming from Hingna will turn right at the Shri Gajanan Maharaj Mandir T-point and enter the VNIT campus near the Indian Oil Petrol Pump. After passing through the VNIT campus, two-wheelers will exit at Yashwant Nagar square, near Ambazari Police Chowki (Gate No. 3 of VNIT). It may be mentioned that Justice Nitin Sambre and Justice Abhay Mantri at the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court on Thursday’s hearing took strong stance and compelled the state government and district administration to utilise their discretionary powers to address the access issue at VNIT. Earlier, VNIT’s Associate Dean, Mangesh Madurwar, highlighted during court proceedings that the institute’s internal roads are ill-suited for heavy traffic.