Indian Express 20.07.2010
Civic body to take decision soon
Express News Service Tags : civic, corporation Posted: Tue Jul 20 2010, 05:24 hrs
Pune: While students of classes V to X who are living within the Pune municipal limits have started getting passes for free bus travel, their counterparts in the twin towns of Pimpri-Chinchwad have not been given this benefit as the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has not taken a decision to provide funds to the civic transport utility so far. However, the PCMC is likely to take a decision on this next week.The Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) has deployed about eighty buses solely to ferry school students. “Last year we could roll out students’ scheme without any issues. However, this year, there was a confusion in implementing this scheme as the two civic bodies had not taken a decision regarding the funding to be provided for that. But recently, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) conveyed us its plan to fund the scheme this year as well. Following this, we also started the procedure for the implementation of the scheme within the Pune municipal limits. We are in the process of distributing the passes to students,” Deepak Pardeshi, PMPML spokesperson said. However, since the PCMC did not take a decision whether to continue the scheme, students there are still deprived of this facility, because of the delay in decision. “Unless the Pimpri-Chinchwad civic body takes a decision regarding this, we cannot extend the scheme for those students.” However, when contacted, PCMC commissioner, Asheesh Sharma, said, “Even though we have not taken a decision on this so far, we are likely to do so by next week. The standing committee will pass this proposal next week and the students who approach, will definitely get the passes.”
