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Pune's auditoriums are facing issues of cleanliness, air-conditioning, water leakage, and parking facilities, causing concern among citizens and artists. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has been unable to keep the auditoriums clean and lacks political pressure to reschedule events. The PMC has been advised to hire professional agencies for cleanliness and appoint officers interested in culture. The district guardian minister has instructed the administration to prepare an action plan and hire private agencies for cleanliness. The Yashwantrao Chavan Auditorium will remain closed for air-co...

The Mumbai Ploggers community combines fitness with clean-up drives MUMBAI: In October last year, a jogger who stepped out of the confines of the lockdown to go trekking in the Kharghar Hills found herself fuming. Instead of views of flowers, butterflies and waterfalls along the climb, she found her eyes resting on cups, wrappers, beer bottles and even mattresses left behind by people increasingly flocking the wide open expanse. Frustrated with the amount of litter mottling the otherwise pristine terrain, Rashmi Singh, 23, found resolution in plogging —a mashup of the words ‘jogging’ an...