The Times of India            26.12.2013 

Pune civic body presents e-learning, slum rehab report to PM

PUNE: A delegation of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) elected representatives, led by senior Congress corporator Aaba Bagul, made an elaborate presentation on the corporation's e-learning and slum rehabilitation initiatives, before Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh in New Delhi recently.

The PMC has launched an innovative project called the Rajeev Gandhi Academy of e-Learning and has been implementing the 'Sanjeevani scheme' for slum rehabilitation. The corporators want these schemes to be viewed as model projects worth replicable across cities in the India.

Bagul said, "The presentation before the PM was aimed at highlighting the finer points of the PMC's initiatives and the same drew a very encouraging response from the PM." Bagul handed over detailed project reports related to the e-learning and the slum rehabilitation initiatives to the PM.

"We hope that the PM office and the urban development ministry takes an apt cognisance of our efforts and same is implemented elsewhere in the country," he said.