Posts Tagged ‘The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)’

Pune’s Ghorpadi society suffers without water for 20 days

Friday, April 15th, 2011

For the last 20 days the residents of Ghorpadi-based Spring Bloom residential society are going through a harrowing time following non-availability of water.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which supplies water to the society, has failed to carry out the repairs to restore the supply.
With mercury rising constantly, the 72 families residing in that society are at their wits end as to how to cope up with the situation.

After the residents raised hue and cry, the PMC started providing one tanker. But it is insufficient to meet the needs of the 72 families because during summers the demand for water goes up.

Moreover the tanker does not come to the society every day. “We don’t know whether the water supplied by the tanker is clean or not. We have babies in the building and their heath is in jeopardy if that water is contaminated and is used for drinking purpose,” the aggrieved chairman of the society, Col (retd) Mrinal Gupta, told DNA.

“Why can’t the civic administration act with alacrity and complete the repairs so that the water supply is restored. After all we are paying our taxes regularly. So why this step motherly treatment,” quizzed the irked residents of the society.

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Pune Municipal Corporation consults defence set-ups

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday asked authorities of various defence establishments in the city to present proposals regarding ‘no development zone’ around their properties so that they could be included in the revised development plan (DP) of the city.

Municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade on Monday had a meeting with the authorities of defence centres that lie in the limits of PMC. Representatives of the Indian Air Force, High Energy Material Research Laboratory (HEMRL), Research and Development Establishment (R&DE) Dighi, and various others were present for the meeting.

Zagade said there are different limits for ‘no development zones’ around these establishments. The PMC wanted to ascertain whether these limits should be continued in the present scenario of development and how. The development plan (DP) of the city of 1987 is being revised by the PMC. The municipal administration wants to include rule of ‘no development’ around the defence establishments so that there would be consistency of these rules in the DP.

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Building permits earn PMC Rs575 crore

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has garnered the highest ever revenue of Rs575 crore in building permission charges during fiscal 2010-11. Speedy clearance of construction proposals following decentralisation of the department last October last led to record collection.

Additional city engineer Vivek Kharwadkar said the collection of building permission charges was Rs269 crore in 2008-09 and Rs295 crore in 2009-10 before it shot up to Rs575 crore in 2010-11.

The charges collected in the first half of the financial year till October 2010 was Rs240 crore before the office’s decentralisation led to major changes. A record Rs335 crore was collected in the next half of the financial year (November to March 2010).

Kharwadkar said it is for the first time in the PMC’s history that the building permission charges have generated the second highest revenue for the PMC, after octroi.

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