CM’s nod to shift Kothrud garbage depot

PUNE, April 22: Pune Municipal Commissioner Ramanath Jha said on Tuesday that Chief Minister Manohar Joshi had agreed to the civic administration’s request to shift the Kothrud garbage depot to some other place.

Jha was speaking at a seminar on `Problems of Pune city’, organised by Rashtriya Ekatmata and Vishwabandhutva Samiti. Jha said the corporation was already in search for an alternate place for the garbage depot. Stating that the Chief Minister had agreed the request to shift the Kothrud garbage depot, Jha said the corporation had suggested a few alternate sites and the survey of the three plots was already over. He said the garbage depot would be shifted to such a spot so as to cause no nuisance and inconvenience to the residents. He stated that the huge plot that presently houses the Kothrud garbage depot would be used for some constructive purpose.

Divisional commissioner Arun Bhatia said he had undertaken a survey of all government plots in the city and he would chalk out a plan for proper utilisation of these plots. Police commissioner K K Kashyap said he had launched schemes to establish cordial relations between police and society. Bureaucrat-turned-social worker Avinash Dharmadhikari and principal of Symbiosis College Beena Inamdar also spoke at the seminar, which was presided over by samiti chairman Kaka Wadke.