Express News Service; Sun Oct 31 2010,
Pune:The municipal corporation has issued notices to 12 builders who have not handed over amenity spaces to it, as per the 2008 civic policy that mandates any builder seeking to convert industrial land into residential to pay a premium and give 10 per cent land as amenity space free of cost to the civic body. Municipal commissioner Asheesh Sharma said, “Earlier, we had decided not to give completion certificate to such defaulting builders, but in future we won’t give them commencement certificate.” The PCMC action follows an RTI application filed by Shiv Sena corporator Seema Savle on September 18.
A PR team for YCMH?
With the flash strike resorted to by doctors at the civic-run Yeshwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital drawing flak, municipal commissioner Asheesh Sharma is pondering whether the hospital needed a PR team to ensure better communication. Sharma, who held an emergency meeting at YCMH, said communication and coordination were lacking in the administration of the hospital. “The doctors needed to communicate effectively with patient’s relatives. I am seriously thinking of appointing a PR team.”
First vice-president dies at 73
PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD’s first municipal vice-president Sadashiv Shankar Dhavade died at his Kasarwadi residence around 6 pm on Friday. Dhavade, who was ailing for sometime, was 75 and is survived by three children. Popularly known as Dhavade master, he was also a PCMC councillor from 1978 to 1982. People from all walks of life attended the funeral, held on Saturday morning.
Tree census in town
Pimpri-Chinchwad, which is known for its green cover, will soon have its third tree census. The civic body has conducted two censuses so far at an interval of five years. The total tree count stood at 12.5 lakh in the first tree census, which rose by 4.5 lakh trees in the second. Officials said the census work would be outsourced to a private party as the PCMC did not have enough hands to carry out the work. Garden superintendent Suresh Salukhe said the civic body would spend Rs 60 lakh for the census.
Poll code row
The code of conduct for the state legislative council, which came into effect in the district on Monday, was at the centre of a controversy the very next day when the PCMC standing committee sanctioned development works worth Rs 3 crore. Additional municipal commissioner Prakash Kadam had informed the panel members soon after the meeting began that the code had come into effect, but the panel paid no heed to it. Standing committee chairman Prashant Shitole claimed there was no violation of the code as they had not received any written orders from the election office when the development works were sanctioned. He said the municipal commissioner need not implement the development works till the elections if the works were violating the poll code.
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