Posts Tagged ‘PMC’

City roads set to become more user-friendly for all

Times of India: Roads and streets in the city are set to undergo a change in their design which will make them more safe and user friendly for pedestrians, cycle riders, bus commuters, motorists, street vendors as well as disabled persons. The Pune Municipal Corporation has taken up an ambitious...
July 20th, 2012 | News | Read More

Rs 2 crore for Rajiv Gandhi School for e-learning

Sakaal Times: With a strength of just 800 students on its enrolment list, Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Rajiv Gandhi School for e-learning has managed to land a Rs 2 crore package – one of the biggest chunk of allocation made to a school in the annual budget presented by the standing...
April 13th, 2012 | News | Read More

PMC to grant Rs 95 lakh for a film on Savitribai Phule

Times of India: The standing committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Wednesday decided to grant Rs 95 lakh for a film based on social reformer Savitribai Phule. A statement issued by the standing committee after a meeting said that the PMC will be the main producer of the film. The...
April 12th, 2012 | News | Read More

PMC to give ‘Swarbhaskar’ award to Pandit Birju Maharaj

Times of India: The Pune Municipal Corporation will be presenting the second ‘Swarbhaskar’ award, instituted by it in memory of Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, to well-known exponent of the Lucknow Kalka-Bindadin gharana of kathak, Pandit Birju Maharaj on Sunday. The award function, which will...
March 22nd, 2012 | News | Read More

Today: Battle of Ballots

INDIAN EXPRESS: With polling exercise starting to roll at 7.30 am for the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), 25,58,792 voters will have the opportunity to exercise their franchise till 5.30 pm to elect 152 candidates (for 76 panels) from a total of 1,177 candidates. In PCMC, 11,52,588 voters would...
February 16th, 2012 | News | Read More

Street plays to urge voters not to fall for lures

INDIAN EXPRESS: Moving a step forward in creating awareness on exercising the right to vote, the election department of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to undertake a campaign through street plays. The campaign is aimed at urging voters not to fall prey to offers of alcohol, cash,...
January 24th, 2012 | News | Read More

PMC to start night shelters for homeless

Indian Express: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to start night shelters across the city for poor who spend the night on streets or open plots as they are unable to afford to have a roof over their head. The first such shelter will come up at the parking lot near Pune railway station....
December 29th, 2011 | News | Read More

City to have 10 new sewage treatment plants

Sakaal Times: City Improvement Committee (CIC) of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Monday, gave the green signal to erect 10 new sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the city under the Central government’s river development programme. Once all these treatment plants are built, Pune will...
December 7th, 2011 | News | Read More

PMC wants to charge for entry into public parks

Sakaal Times: Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Pathak on Wednesday expressed the inability of the Pune Municipal Corporation to maintain all the 110 municipal gardens on its own and suggested that if a nominal entrance fee is charged from the public then the gardens could be better maintained. A proposal...
November 24th, 2011 | News | Read More

PMC nursery students to go without mid-day meals

Times of India: Over 12,000 nursery students of schools run by Pune Municipal Corporation will have to go without their mid-day meals as the civic urban community department has expressed its inability to fund the scheme. The PMC has been spending Rs 10 lakh every month to provide the meals. The...
November 10th, 2011 | News | Read More
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