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Eleven civic officials to face action

MUNICIPAL Commissioner T C Benjamin is understood to have finalised action against 11 civic officials, who were found involved in various financial irregularities as alleged by former municipal...

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Panel to draw up draft DP has nothing to show

THE issue of two separate Development Plans and two separate Development Control rules for Pune would not have sparked off a debate had a high-powered committee, appointed by the State government two...

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NEWSLINE SPECIAL: Warje land fails to make it to social forestry zone

THE civic administration’s development plan (DP) for merged villages, recently presented to the City Improvements Committee (CIC), has raised several eyebrows in the civic corridors. According to...

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VHP top brass to meet in city for five-day brainstorming session

CLOSE on the heels of the BJP’s landslide victory in Gujarat, the top brass of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) will hold a five-day brainstorming session in the city from December 25. Local VHP...

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PMC plan to regulate borewells in the offing

ALARMED over the serious depletion in ground water table, Pune Municipal Corporation is currently formulating a comprehensive policy to regulate and control digging of borewells within its limits. PMC...

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CIC retains hilltops in merged area plan

BOWING to public sentiment, in a significant decision today, the City Improvements Committee (CIC) is understood to have decided to extend to the development plan (DP) for the merged villages the...

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RP may nullify modifications

THE state government is expected to set aside the controversial recommendations in the development plan (DP) for merged areas, pushed through by the Congress and Nationalist Congress Party in the Pune...

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ONLY IN NEWSLINE: Clandestine move may spell doom for hill areas

THROWING its own norms out of the window, Congress, along with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has clandestinely put as many as 11 survey nos. identified as hilltop/ slope in Regional Plan (RP) into...

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Clandestine move may spell doom for hill areas

Throwing its own norms out of the window, Congress, along with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), has clandestinely put as many as 11 survey nos. identified as hilltop/ slope in Regional Plan (RP) into...

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Benjamin to scrutinise DP modifications

STRIKING the first blow to the Congress gameplan to throw up several acres of land in fringe villages for residential purpose, the state government has asked Municipal Commissioner T C Benjamin to...

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Surcharge on fuel, entry toll from October

COME October and citizens will have to pay additional surcharge on fuel and toll while entering the city thanks to various projects undertaken by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation...

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PMC turns a blind eye to govt norms

IGNORING norms of urban planning laid down by the urban development department (UDD), the Pune Municipal Corporation has proposed much fewer number of reservations in the merged areas, a move that is...

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PMC to switch to e-governance

ENCOURAGED by the response to the display of the development plan for extended areas on its website, the PMC is planning to go in for e-governance in a big way in the coming financial year. Confirming...

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Commerce set to derail commuter interest at rly station

Even as commuters continue to find it difficult to reach Pune Railway Station because of heavy traffic congestion, the Railways have decided to offer a 1.5 acre prime piece of its land, earlier...

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Benjamin orders punishment in corruption case

PMC medical and health officer (MHO) and two retired city engineers, who were indicted by an inquiry committee formed to examine allegations by former municipal commissioner Arun Bhatia, have come in...

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PMC officers may be let off the hook

ELECTED representatives of PMC may come to the rescue of civic officials found guilty by the one-man inquiry committee which looked into charges levelled by Arun Bhatia. Sources said their...

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NEWSLINE SPECIAL: Sanjay Kumar seeks counsel on legal points

MUNICIPAL Commissioner Sanjay Kumar has sought advise from the Directorate of Town Planning (DTP) over various legalities involved in the Development Plan (DP) issue. With this, uncertainty looms once...

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NEWSLINE SPECIAL: State Govt delay puts PMC in a bind

DELAY on the part of the state government in issuing a written order vacating the stay on regularisation of houses on agricultural land has upset the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)’s plan to accord...

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NEWSLINE SPECIAL: Another slope may be lost to ‘development’

THE number of citizens concerned about the depleting green belt in and around the city may be increasing. But the city is losing precious green areas as the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) opens them...

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Decks cleared for flyover at Univ Chowk

WITH police authorities clarifying that a flyover at Pune University Square would not pose a security threat to Raj Bhavan premises in the vicinity, a major hurdle in its construction has now been...

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