India, Feb. 14 -- With slums standing in the way of erecting the new Sadhu Vaswani Bridge at Koregaon Park, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) began removing them on Thursday. The action was taken by the Dhole Patil ward office, with more than 100 shanties expected to be taken down by Thursday evening.

A press statement issued by the PMC read: "The length of the new bridge is 640 metres. The work of the flyover started from the Koregaon Park side with the PMC erecting seven out of eight pillars. The work of the last pillar is pending due to the slums that are towards the VIP Circuit House."

Executive engineer Yuvraj Deshmukh said, "The PMC began removing over 100 shanties that had become an obstacle in the completion of this flyover. ...