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The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is feeling the pressure to perform since Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided to launch his ambitious Smart Cities Mission from Pune. Modi will be in the city on Saturday to inaugurate 14 different projects to be taken up by the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSDCL). The other 19 […]

Improving road safety , driving skills and health of drivers are among the goals of a new initiative launched by developer D S Kulkarni, spurred by an accident on the PuneMumbai expressway that killed his driver last month. Addressing a news conference here on Wednesday , Kulkarni announced the formation of a foundation which will

Thirty minutes of rainfall in Vadgaonsheri exposed the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) tall claims on Monday as several parts of the area experienced heavy waterlogging. Rain water even entered some housing societies. The worst affected areas in Vadgaonsheri were Sainikwadi, Ganraj Cooperative Housing Society, Ujjwal Garden and Anand Heights. The rainfall started at around 4

Get ready for a rough ride this monsoon. It was decided a month ago at Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) general body meeting that bearing in mind the city’s date with the monsoon on June 7, all road work be completed by May 25. Now, it emerges that with less than five days to the deadline,

पुणे महानगर प्रादेशिक विकास प्राधिकरणाच्या (पीएमआरडीए) स्थापनेपाठोपाठ पुणे व परिसराच्या विकासासाठी महत्त्वपूर्ण असणाऱ्या रिंगरोड प्रकल्पाबाबतही राज्य सरकारने एक महत्त्वाचे पाऊल टाकले आहे. “पीएमआरडीए‘च्या स्थापनेनंतर या प्रकल्पासही दिशा मिळेल, अशी अपेक्षा होती. त्यानुसार या संपूर्ण मार्गाचा समावेश “पीएमआरडीए‘च्या आराखड्यात करण्याचा निर्णय झाला. या मार्गाची योग्य प्रकारे आखणी, जागा ताब्यात घेणे आणि प्रत्यक्ष कामाला सुरवात या गोष्टींना

Speed breakers are turning out to be spine chillers for Punekars. For, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has laid out an array of bumps in different shapes and sizes across the city — narrow, steep, pointed, staccato, barely-there et al — often two different kinds barely feet away from each other, causing motorists quite some

शहरभर बोकाळलेल्या हातगाडय़ा आणि स्टॉलच्या अतिक्रमणांमुळे जागोजागी वाहतूक कोंडीची समस्या निर्माण होत असून लाखो रुपये खर्च करून तयार केलेले पदपथही वाया गेल्यात जमा आहेत. संबंधित व्यावसायिकांचे अधिकाऱ्यांशी असलेले साटेलोटे, व्यावसायिकांकडून निर्माण होत असलेली अनारोग्याची परिस्थिती, व्यावसायिकांची दादागिरी आणि स्थानिक नागरिकांना होणारा त्रास असे अनेक प्रकार शहरभर उघडपणे दिसत असले, तरी प्रशासन मात्र ढिम्मच आहे. शहरभर

It’s a carnival out there. Fergusson College Road is set thick with hawkers on either side. Whether its fashion accessories, trendy clothing, cosmetics or a variety of street snacks, these hawkers have them all. City crowds make merry late into the night on weekends in this veritable ‘fashion street’. But the beautiful peacock at night

In their bid to spread the reach of piped-gas lines across the city, the Maharashtra Natural Gas Limited (MNGL) may have overlooked crucial safety precautions prescribed for such operations by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). For starters, MNGL is flouting the depth mandate, which is 1.5 metres or five feet. Besides, gas pipelines need to

An efficient public transport system and pedestrian-friendly roads could be the ideal way out of the city’s parking mess, but for now what Pune needs are immediate solutions and the civic body’s attention to the problem, say experts. They suggest both immediate and long-term solutions to tackle the growing concern of shrinking parking spaces with