Urban News

The Pune Municipal Corpoartion (PMC) may soon give a job to the widow of Shankar Pansare, who lost his life in the German Bakery blast.

NCP city unit chief Vandana Chavan has written to Mayor Mohansingh Rajpal requesting him to give employment to Pansare’s widow.

The mayor said, “We have decided to give a serious thought to this request. There is a provision in the law — a relative of the deceased, who resides within municipal limits could be given a job.”

Shankar Pansare, 27, had migrated to Pune from Velhe taluka to make a living. He used to drive an autorickshaw to feed his family of wife, two children and ailing parents. On Saturday, when Pansare was passing by the bakery the blast took place, killing him on the spot. His passengers managed to escape with injuries. Pansare, a class X dropout, had come to the city soon after his marriage and had been staying at a rented home in Dhankwadi village with his wife, three-year-old daughter and one-year-old son.