Pune With water cuts looming large over the city, Municipal Commissioner Mahesh Zagade has introduced some reforms in the existing water supply system to ensure equitable distribution of water. One such way is by holding the staff accountable.
Pune Road and rail traffic came to a standstill on old Mumbai-Pune highway after leakage from an LPG tanker that turned turtle near Kamshet on Tuesday.
Trains switched to diesel engines
in the nearby railway line due to the potential threat from overhead high tension wires. People living within the radius of one kilometer were evacuated, and domestic gas cylinders shifted out of the area.
Pune The Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has taken a big leap in garbage management in town by putting bin clearance online to enable citizens to keep track of waste disposal in their neighbourhood. The website updates status of garbage bins and containers every five minutes.
Pune It's been a long wait of three years for nearly 1,000 families from the economically weaker section in the city staying on non-developmental zones such as hill slopes and river banks. But three months from now, they will be able to move to their own flats in January 2010.
Pune Months after converting the Jangli Maharaj Road and Fergusson College Road to one-way circular routes, the city traffic police and the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) have reasons to cheer.
