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PMC appoints S S surveyors to conduct DP survey

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 05:53 administrator
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The Times of India 25.08.2009

PMC appoints S S surveyors to conduct DP survey

TNN 25 August 2009, 01:23am IST

PUNE: The civic standing committee on Monday approved the proposal to conduct a survey of roads and reservations in 1987 Development Plan (DP) to facilitate the process of the new DP. However, the committee decided against appointing the lowest bidder, the Monarch surveyors, and instead assigned the task to S S surveyors.

In a proposal before the standing committee, the municipal administration has stated that Monarch surveyors and contractors have submitted lowest tender for conducting survey and it was recommended that they should be allowed to conduct survey at the cost of Rs 2 crore. "However, the committee decided not to give this work to Monarch considering the past experience the PMC had with this agency. Instead, we have appointed the second lowest bidder, S S Surveyors, for the work," said standing committee chairman Nilesh Nikam, while talking to reporters.

"The survey will be conducted by establishing ground control points using total station with reference to primary Global Positioning System (GPS) control points. The survey will be conducted in old Pune city limits in sector 1-6. Carrying out detail survey using total station along the road with upto 10 metre buffer area on both sides of road or up to the end of adjoining property to the road whichever is maximum. This include collecting all natural and artificial features of areas like temporary, permanent structures, compound wall, buildings, fencing and all utilities such as electric lines, manholes, chambers, valves, telephone lines, footpaths signals. The same criteria will be applied for the river side as well," states the proposal approved by the standing committee on Monday.
 

PCMC isolation ward staff to get N95 masks

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 05:48 administrator
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The Times of India 25.08.2009

PCMC isolation ward staff to get N95 masks

TNN 25 August 2009, 01:11am IST

PUNE: The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has decided to provide N-95 masks to its staff members working in isolation wards at municipal hospitals. The decision was taken on Monday during the standing committee meeting, which was presided by chairman Dnyaneshwar Bhalerao. The demand for the masks for all staff members, including ward boys, had been made by standing committee member Ashok Sonavane. The total number of masks that would be required is yet to be ascertained.

Bhalerao said a resolution was approved to increase the monthly honorarium of 120 contract sanitary workers of the education department from Rs 2,000 to Rs 5,000. The workers maintain cleanliness at municipal schools. Sonavane said the hike will result in additional burden of Rs 3 to 3.25 lakh to the civic exchequer or around Rs 40 lakh per year.

The standing committee meeting held on Monday is likely to be the last weekly meeting of the committee before the election code of conduct for assembly elections comes into force. But no major proposals were approved during the meeting. Among the resolutions approved include constructing of a multi-purpose hall for a school in sector 22 of Nigdi, at an expenditure of Rs 13.61 lakh, and purchasing of uniforms for civic employees at an expenditure of Rs 73.19 lakh.

Speaking to TOI on Monday, Baban Zinjurde, president, Pimpri-Chinchwad Mhanagarpalika Karmacharai Mahasangh, said around 2,000 civic employees are eligible for uniforms. These workers comprise peons, labourers, drivers, and octroi and sanitary inspectors. The PCMC provides a pair of uniforms to these employees per year.
 

PCMC okays Rs 16-cr proposal for buying buses

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 05:46 administrator
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The Times of India 25.08.2009

PCMC okays Rs 16-cr proposal for buying buses

TNN 25 August 2009, 12:54am IST

The general body (GB) of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) approved the civic administration's proposal of giving Rs 16.25 crore to the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) for purchasing buses, despite stiff opposition from corporators, who said that the PMPML was treating former PCMT workers in a stepbrotherly fashion. They added that the bus service was not up to the mark in the twin-townships.

PCMC chief accounts officer Neelkanth Londhe informed the house that the central government has approved the PMPML's proposal to purchase 650 buses. "The central and state governments have given their share to the PCMC, which amounts to Rs 16.25 crore. The PMPML is demanding that this money should be given to them," he said.

Opposing the proposal to buy the buses on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis, independent corporator Maruti Bhapkar said that this move will finally lead to privatisation of the PMPML.

He alleged that former PCMT workers were not getting their fare share from the PMPML and that not a single rupee should be given to the PMPML. He demanded that if the proposal is approved then his opposition should be noted in the proceedings of the house.

Voicing a similar opinion, NCP corporator Mahesh Landge said that though PMPML recruited 600 men on contract basis from Pune, not even a single person was hired from Pimpri-Chinchwad. He demanded that PMPML should recruit 40 per cent of its men from PCMC, in accordance with its share in the PMPML.

NCP corporator Yogesh Behl said that according to the proposal, the PCMC has to bear 30 per cent of the expense for purchasing the buses. "The PCMC should not pay this amount as the buses will be bought on PPP basis and private operator should pay for it," he said.

Ashok Sonavane, group leader of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) corporators in the PCMC, said that the PMPML should not buy any air-conditioned buses as the transport body had to slash the ticket rates as these buses were not popular with the commuters.

Civic chief Ashish Sharma said that the PMPML urgently needs the money to buy buses and that the PCMC should give the Rs 16.25 crore immediately. Chairman of the PCMC standing committee Dnyaneshwar Bhalerao extended his support in this regard and demanded that the proposal be approved.

 
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