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PCMC panel slams delay in women, child welfare schemes

Friday, 24 May 2013 12:05 administrator
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The Times of India              24.05.2013

PCMC panel slams delay in women, child welfare schemes

PUNE: The members of the standing committee of the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation ( PCMC) expressed their displeasure over the delay in implementation of schemes run by the women and child welfare department.

NCP corporator Maya Barne, who presided over the meeting held on Tuesday, said the municipal corporation has various schemes in which cycles and scholarships are given to students and sewing machines are given to needy women. But the citizens do not get these on time, she said. Several other members raised similar complaints.

Another corporator Vinaya Tapkir pointed out that the standing committee had approved a proposal to provide snacks and toys to students of balwadis in municipal limits around a year ago. But they have still not been provided with these facilities.

The members also demanded that persons who visit houses to distribute water bills should be given identity cards. The demand came after a Bhosari woman, who was alone at home, was robbed by a man posing as a census official.

 

PCMC to identify hawker zones

Friday, 24 May 2013 12:03 administrator
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The Times of India              24.05.2013

PCMC to identify hawker zones

PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation will soon finalize locations for setting up hawker zones. The town planning department and the four zonal offices have been appointed to identify the locations.

Additional municipal commissioner Prakash Kadam said the corporation had prepared its own hawker policy in 2009 and had sent it to the state government for approval. In 2012, the Union government had selected the municipal corporation to implement a pilot project with respect to the national policy for hawkers. Accordingly, the corporation has formed a committee of hawkers along with a zonal-level hawkers' committee.

As part of implementation of the pilot project, the standing committee on May 21 approved the fee structure to be collected from hawkers. The civic body has categorized the hawkers into three categories, namely, stationary hawkers, mobile hawkers and weekly bazaar hawkers.

The rates recommended by the city hawkers committee have been approved by the standing committee. The one-time registration fee for all the three categories is Rs 1,000. The annual maintenance fees for stationary hawkers, mobile hawkers and weekly bazaar hawkers are Rs 5,000, Rs 1,000 and Rs 2,000, respectively. If the mobile hawker is found to be conducting business in the no-hawker zones, then he will have to pay a fine of Rs 500.

Baba Bagal, administration officer, land and estates department at PMC, said the civic body conducted a survey of hawkers in the city and has instructed them to submit applications for the hawkers' licence. "We have received as many as 9,999 applications till now. These applications will be scrutinized and a list of eligible and ineligible hawkers will be published then. Only the eligible hawkers will be given the licenses," he said.

 

Civic body to purchase medicines worth Rs 2 crore

Friday, 24 May 2013 11:57 administrator
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The Times of India              24.05.2013

Civic body to purchase medicines worth Rs 2 crore

PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) proposes to purchase medicines worth Rs 2 crore for its hospitals for 2013-14.

A proposal will be tabled before the standing committee meeting to be held on May 28.

The proposal stated that the civic body had invited applications from companies for registering to supply medicines needed for two years. The bids were invited for 1,495 medicines which included allopathic medicine- 730 items, surgical- 465 items, ayurvedic- 224 items, dental- 58 items and homeopathic medicine- 18 items.

Ten companies applied for the bids. The medicine selection committee selected the companies.

Speaking to TOI, SB Gaikwad, acting Medical Officer of Health(MOH), PCMC said, "The proposal was tabled before the standing committee for approval at its meeting held on May 21 but was kept pending. It will be again tabled on May 28. The health department had purchased medicines costing Rs 9 crore for 2012-13. We will be purchasing medicines worth Rs 2 crore in the first installment. Later if we need more medicines then we will purchase more medicines after getting the approval of the standing committee."

 
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