MD MahaMetro Brijesh Dixit is hopeful of getting nod for extension

Some cheer for commuters: ‘Metro will run up to Nigdi’... A DAY after citizens and activists staged a protest in Pimpri-Chinchwad led by Pimpri Chinchwad Citizen Forum - PCCF demanding extension of Pune metro route up to Nigdi in the first phase itself, Brijesh Dixit, managing director of Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (Maha-Metro), said all efforts are being made to extend the metro up to Nigdi. “We are in the process of taking up the matter with the state and central governments. And we are hopeful of getting the nod for extension of the Pimpri-Swargate route up to Nigdi in the first phase itself,” he said... Recently Divisional Commissioner Chandrakant Dalvi also gave instruction to Pune Metro to prepare DPR for Pimpri-Nigdi extention