Pune: PMC to set up Metropolitan Surveillance Unit, city disaster response force, undertake Ektanagari rehabilitation project

Besides, the civic body would administer free vaccination on cervical cancer to all 15,000 girl students of civic schools between the ages of 9 and 14 years, he said, adding a cancer diagnosis facility would be started in the coming financial year. Also, four Disabled Therapy Centres will be started in different parts of city.

As the city has been witnessing flood like situation during monsoon since the last few years, Bhosale said a EOC will be set up in the civic main building as a dedicated disaster management cell that would ensure effective handling of any natural disaster. This will be in addition to the Integrated Command and Control Centre for the purpose. “A city Disaster Response Force will be set up to ensure swift action for disaster management,” he informed.

The PMC has decided to rehabilitate residents of Ekta Nagari alongside Mutha river on Sinhgad road as a permanent solution to flooding in the locality, Bhosale said, adding 1,383 apartments and 67 shops will be rehabilitated in nearby Hingane Khurd area through a cluster development project.

Citizens Grievance Redressal committee will be constituted at each of the five municipal zonal office so that citizens can raise civic issues at local level which the committee would resolve swiftly, he said, adding, “Similarly, the decentralisation of Shahari Garib Yojana, medical assistance scheme for urban poor, will be done by enabling services at each of the ward offices as against one office in main building.”