Pune: civic issues

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Hawkers

Darshana Daga, The hawker menace in Pune, Dec 4, 2016: The Times of India

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Hawkers have been wreaking havoc for years on the Pune Cantonment roads.

This menace is not just around the Aurora Towers area, but in many other parts of cantonment as well.

Hawkers have been wreaking havoc for years on the Pune Cantonment roads — especially the area around the iconic Aurora Towers at Moledina Road — despite the Pune Cantonment Board (PCB) limits officially being declared a hawker-free zone. The established shop fronts are being choked daily by their brazen encroachment. But, every time the shopkeepers complain, they are met with threats. So, in 2016 they have decided to bargain their way out of this terror by going green. In a written complaint to the PCB and Lashkar police, shopkeepers of the Aurora Towers area have promised to keep the pavements spotless, even plant trees to beautify the area, if the hawkers are ousted.

Taboot street, Bootee Street, East Street, M G Road, Aurora Towers surrounds and areas around JJ Garden, Fashion Street, Jaihind Chawk, Aabaji Maidan, Clover Centre and Empress Garden are the major areas in the PCB limits where the presence of illegal hawkers can be seen.

Spitting

2018:  Pune makes spitters clean up

Pune to make spitters clean up their act, November 12, 2018: The Times of India

In a bid to keep Pune streets clean, the city civic body has started punishing people spitting on roads by making them clean the spit, besides levying a fine on offenders, an official said. The decision was taken after authorities found that only monetary fine was not adequate to check the menace of spitting, Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) solid waste management department chief Dnyaneshwar Molak said.

The initiative was launched in five wards of Bibwewadi, Aundh, Yerawada, Kasba and Ghole Road, he said.

“In the last eight days, PMC sanitation inspectors caught around 156 people while they were spitting on streets. All of them were made to clean their spit immediately and a fine of Rs 150 was imposed on each of them,” he added.

The objective behind the punishment is to send across a message to the people that when offenders are made to clean their own spit, they feel ashamed, and that next time, they will think twice before spitting on the streets, he said.

Molak noted that in the 2018 cleanliness survey, Pune was ranked at the 10th position whereas Indore in Madhya Pradesh was on the top.

“This time, we are aiming for the number one position. The latest drive is one of the initiatives taken by the civic body ahead of the Swachh Survekshan (survey) 2019,” he added.