PMC ropes in Kharata Paltan to clean roads
PMC ropes in Kharata Paltan to clean roads
ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
A team of 40 members will clean the road and pavement in Kashewadi slum area every Friday (FILE PHOTO)
After a social group mooted a proposal to the civic body to take beggars on board, the team has been allotted Bhavani Peth.
In a welcome move, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has roped in beggars and street dwellers to join their garbage cleaning drive. Tagged as the ‘Kharata Paltan’, these financially disadvantaged people will now be a part of PMC’s Swachata team. Civic officials have allocated Bhavani Peth to the newly formed team. With this initiative, the civic body aims to assist the beggars to earn a living and keep the city clean.
Patched up wall at Katraj Zoo leads to 4 blackbucks dying
Patched up wall at Katraj Zoo leads to 4 blackbucks dying
BySupriya Dedgaonkar / Photographs byRahul DeshmukhSupriya Dedgaonkar / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 19:15 IST
Pics: Rahul Deshmukh
Hungry stray dogs entered zoo and chased protected species herd, leading to chaos; zoo blames PMC for leaving broken wall unfixed since 2019, while civic body scrambles to make amends.
The gross mismanagement of all authorities concerned has led to deaths of protected species animals at a zoo in the heart of the city, underscoring the irony of urban officials being unable to prevent an incident that usually takes place in the wild.
PMC directs to limit credit boards to one
PMC directs to limit credit boards to one
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
Random boards will be taken down by PMC’s anti-encroachment department (FILE PHOTO)
Legislators from all parties will have to put their names related to civic works on a single hoarding.
Following massive public outrage and the ensuing
signature campaign undertaken by
civic corporators to claim credit of
public works and private housing projects across the city, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has finally taken cognisance of the complaints raised over the issue.
In a formal meeting held with the assistant commissioners of all 15 ward offices across the city, the additional municipal chief of PMC instructed them to allow only a single signboard at a place, adding that local corporators would be allowed to use their names, but all four names of the representatives must be placed on the same signboard. The official has barred leg
COVID claims seven lives; 737 new cases in Pune dist
COVID claims seven lives; 737 new cases in Pune dist
ByVicky PathareVicky Pathare / Updated: Jan 8, 2021, 06:00 IST
On Thursday, 737 new
COVID cases were reported in Pune district, taking the total to 3,67,488, said the officials. The virus claimed seven lives. The death toll stands at 8,880. Also, 689 patients recovered from the disease. So far, 3,53,070 have battled the infection. Among the new cases, 387 are in Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits, 146 in Pimpri-Chinchwad, 151 in Pune rural and 53 in cantonment board areas
There are 2,678 active COVID cases in PMC limits out of which 202 are critical. On Thursday, as many as 5,043 tests were conducted by PMC, taking the cumulative total to 9.46 lakh, said Dr Ashish Bharti, PMC health chief.
BJP ex-corporators move HC over newly sanctioned UDCPR
BJP ex-corporators move HC over newly sanctioned UDCPR
ByPrachee KulkarniPrachee Kulkarni / Updated: Jan 7, 2021, 06:00 IST
FILE PHOTO
Duo claims state government has encroached on exclusive power vested with local bodies to formulate DCPR and the new rules work against public interest.
Two former corporators of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), have moved Bombay High Court (HC) challenging the Unified
Development Control and Promotion Regulations (UDCPR) sanctioned by the state government last month. Calling the move unconstitutional, they sought quashing of the government’s notification and for declaring the rules void in their writ petition.