On the second day running, there was little respite for residents of Pimpri-Chinchwad from overflowing garbage bins and containers. In several suburbs today, mountains of garbage had sprung up as officials of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation battled with complaints from residents. Since Saturday, the private vehicles owners, numbering 50, have struck work demanding hike in garbage collection amount. Health chief Dr Nagkumar Kunachgi while refusing the hike had said that the PCMC does not need the services of the private vehicle owners.

GAIL India, the country's largest transporter and marketer of natural gas, is looking at the possibility of floating a subsidiary to set up compressed natural gas (CNG) outlets along the highways where it has its pipelines. The company is targeting to become a Rs 50,000 crore company by 2011. The company plans to set up these outlets under its CNG corridor plan and has already identified in the areas Delhi-Agra-Lucknow highway and on the Mumbai-Pune highway.

The highway from Pune to Ahmednagar is an interesting one. Farmers in traditional white peaked caps zip past you, some in fancy new cars. Signs of prosperity are apparent, although the region battled with severe drought just a couple of years ago. A few kilometres down the highway, beyond the small town of Chikrapur, a left turn reveals the road that leads to our destination

Forty persons, including women from nine families living, at survey number 2A/8 on Bhau Patil Road in Bopodi are using nearby open ground as public toilet facility. This was after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) demolished a public toilet they were using for last 25 years without making any alternate arrangement on January 18. The toilet was constructed by the PMC on a private land. NCP corporator Anil Bhosale later purchased the land and asked builder Ravindra Sankala to develop the site.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), which has been under criticism for delay in executing various development projects, has however received praise from the World Bank for its rehabilitation of the project affected people (PAP). Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi had recently made a presentation of the PMC initiative at a meeting of all the municipal commissioners of the selected cities under Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) with the World Bank officers.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has been announcing various benefits for execution of eco-housing program

could the old newspapers piling up in the storeroom help treat waste water? Experiments have shown how newspapers can be used to remove heavy metals from industrial waste water. A study at the

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