The Times of India              19.12.2013

Civic body clears 35 BOT projects to beautify Pune

PUNE: The built operate and transfer (BOT) committee of the Pune Municipal Corporation met last week after a gap of 17 months and approved 35 projects.

"Most projects are about beautification of traffic islands. Several companies and groups have come forward to beautify chowks in the city," said Vasant More, a member of the committee and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena corporator. Speaking to reporters after the meeting, More said that issues pending since 2011 were discussed and resolved. "People who are going to take up these BOT projects will be able to use the place for advertising which will generate revenue for them. This revenue will help them maintain the projects for the next five years," said More. More said that delay in holding BOT meetings was because no new projects were coming up for consideration of the committee. "Since old projects were waiting for clearance, no major projects were coming up for discussions. Even the elected members were not able to propose new projects. Now we have decided to conduct BOT meeting once every month. This will help secure speedy clearance for projects," he said.

People who are going to take up these BOT projects will be able to use the place for advertising which will generate revenue for them. This revenue will help them maintain the projects for the next five years.