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...
View ArticlePanel 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...
View ArticleNEWSLINE SPECIAL: Warje land fails to make it to social forestry zone
THE civic administrations development plan (DP) for merged villages, recently presented to the City Improvements Committee (CIC), has raised several eyebrows in the civic corridors. According to...
View ArticleVHP top brass to meet in city for five-day brainstorming session
CLOSE on the heels of the BJPs 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...
View ArticlePMC 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...
View ArticleCIC 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...
View ArticleRP 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...
View ArticleONLY 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...
View ArticleClandestine 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...
View ArticleBenjamin 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...
View ArticleSurcharge 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...
View ArticlePMC 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...
View ArticlePMC 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...
View ArticleCommerce 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...
View ArticleBenjamin 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...
View ArticlePMC 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...
View ArticleNEWSLINE 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...
View ArticleNEWSLINE 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...
View ArticleNEWSLINE 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...
View ArticleDecks 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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