The Indian Express 14.03.2013
PMC to award 5 cleanest housing societies every year
To encourage good civic practices among citizens, the Pune Municipal
Corporation (PMC) has decided to award five cooperative housing
societies for maintaining cleanliness on their premises and judiciously
using water.
After the coordination committee meeting of all party leaders,
Mayor Vaishali Bankar said public participation was required to
inculcate civic sense among citizens and the PMC initiative would help
in achieving it.
“Every year the civic body would select five housing societies for best civic practices and give them awards,” she said.
The performance would be based on cleanliness of the housing
society premises, effective management of solid waste generated there
and proper use of water, along with timely payment of property tax by
residents.
“This is the beginning of a plan to encourage citizens to join
hands with PMC in making the city beautiful,” said NCP leader Subhash
Jagtap.
In last year’s budget, the PMC had announced that the best
performing electoral ward would be rewarded with additional funds for
carrying development work in their respective areas. The PMC is now all
set to complete the process of selecting four electoral wards for the
award.
“The scheme of awarding electoral wards would continue and it
requires citizens, elected representatives and civic staff to join
hands, while the scheme for housing societies would be completely with
the citizens for their performance,” said Jagtap.
The coordination committee unanimously decided that the benches,
bus stops and signages from civic funds would not have names of local
representatives from now onwards.
“There will be uniformity in the size and colour of the bus stops,
benches and signages across the city. There will be no names of any
local corporator on it,” added Jagtap.
NCP spokesperson Ankush Kakade said he had been demanding that
the civic administration should stop the wrong practice of allowing
names of local corporators on the benches, buckets and bus stops from
civic funds. “It is a welcome step to not allow the names of corporators
on civic properties, but it has to be strictly implemented,” he added.
The Sajag Nagrik Manch, too, had requested the municipal commissioner to direct civic officers to stop the practice.
More Aadhaar registration centres to speed up drive
To speed up Aadhaar enrolment, the Pune Municipal Corporation
(PMC) has decided to start two registration centres each in the 76
electoral panels.
“The PMC has registered 17.50 lakh citizens for Aadhaar so far.
There has been a rush for registration and to ensure that more citizens
get registered as soon as possible there would be centres to be opened
at each of electoral panel,” said Mangesh Joshi, Deputy Municipal
Commissioner.
He said the civic administration plans to cover 80 per cent of
the citizens by the end of the year as additional machines for Aadhaar
registration have been made available for the city.
Joshi said the civic administration had conducted a special drive
in schools of the city to enroll as many students as possible for
Aadhaar registration .
