Pune: Financially backward municipal school students preparing for their 10th standard exam may get a helping hand from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The civic body is contemplating to provide Rs5000 per student, that can use utilised as aid for private coaching fees. Read More at: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/civic-body-to-sponsor-private-coaching-of-poor-students/articleshow/64151392.cms
PUNE: The new terminal building of the Lohegaon airport will be the simplest in design and segregate the domesticand international flyerscompletely. A source told TOI, “The terminal building will be integrated for both domestic and international flyers but there will be different security hold areas for each section. The passengers will be experiencing the kind of facilities available inContinue reading
Pimpri Chinchwad: The civic body has urged the Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MahaMetro) to change the alignment of the Pimpri-Swargate route to ensure it doesn’t block the bus rapid transit system (BRTS) corridor in Pimpri. MahaMetro had begun constructing the 15km Pimpri-Swargate Metro route last year. To facilitate construction of the pillars, officials hadContinue reading
Pune: A Pune corporator has raised a demand to extend the Vanaz-Ramwadi Metro corridor to the Lohegaon airport. The civil work on the Vanaz-Ramwadi corridor is underway. Corporator Sunil Tingre from the Ahmednagar Road-Tingrenagar area said the Metro link to the airport is missing in the plan and that thousands of flyers would benefit ifContinue reading
PUNE: The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation (MahaMetro) is confident of laying the foundations for pillars on the Mutha riverside road before the onset of monsoon. MahaMetro has planned 59 pillars on this stretch, between Deccan Gymkhana and Congress Bhavan. Of these, officials said, foundations for 17 were nearly ready, and the rest will be completed byContinue reading
PUNE: The process of drafting the development plan (DP) for the 11 villages recently merged with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) limits is expected to start soon. The civic body’s city improvement committee has given a go-ahead to the process. A nodal officer will be appointed in 15 days to draft the plan. “The intention to publish the DPContinue reading
PUNE: A delegation of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and elected members visited the pending work site of riverside road patch between Rajput slums and Mhatre bridge that is part of the Shivane to Kharadi route. The delegation led by Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Vijay Kale demanded that the works should be completed soon. “The riverside road was planned to ease the trafficContinue reading
The evening at Savitribai Phule University Pune gleamed as it commenced with Baitalik –Sandhya pheri where Tagore devotees rambled the campus. Donned in shades of palash (gulmohar) and krishnachura flowers (royal poinciana), they walked through the campus towards Angan Manch at Lalit Kala Kendra. Pune-based cultural group –Upasana celebrated Rabindranath Tagore’s 157th birth anniversary with various cultural programsContinue reading
The Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Corporation Limited (MSEDCL) has set up electricity connections at 65 households in Songav village in Phaltan taluka. Most of the people here are farm labourers and several live below the poverty line. As part of the Pradhan Mantri Soubhagya Yojana-Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar scheme, free-of-cost electricity connections are being offeredContinue reading
The MahaSlam held at the Kala Kollective, at Shankarsheth Road saw many young poetry enthusiast come together and fight it out. The competition was tough and the young poets gave their best. It consisted of two rounds with all participants competing in the first round with the top five going on the compete in the second round forContinue reading
