After a decade-long battle, waste unit shifted from KP
After a decade-long battle, waste unit shifted from KP
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Jul 14, 2021, 06:00 IST
PMC caves in
After waging a decade-long battle against the civic body, Koregaon Park residents have been successful in getting the
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to remove its waste-segregation unit from the area’s centrally located plot reserved for recreational amenities for seniors. On Monday, the PMC finally shifted the plant 600 metre away.
For the last 10 years, members of the All Koregaon Park Citizens’ Committee (AKPCC) had been making all possible efforts including correspondence with authorities, a mass protest and also renaming the area Piggy Park to highlight the problem. On Sunday, PMC officially shifted the unit to a shed near Avani plant.
Civic body builds its waste centre inside flood line
Civic body builds its waste centre inside flood line
ByVijay ChavanVijay Chavan / Updated: Feb 15, 2021, 06:00 IST
NGT RULINGS
Residents of nearby societies on Burning Ghat Rd in KP many of whom are ironically civic officials outraged that this irresponsible activity could worsen
monsoon floods for them
Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) over the range of encroachments inside off-limits-for-construction zones of the
Mula-Mutha river under its limits, the civic body in 2020 appointed a private agency to clean up the river, spending crores of rupees on the muchneeded activity.
And yet, this local body which is ideally tasked with executing NGT orders without fail has now in 2021 been caught ironically violating the same instructions. PMC has reportedly started construction of a waste segregation centre (feeder point) right inside the flood line of the Mula-Mutha near Burning Ghat Road in Koregaon Park (KP), inviting o