Enthusiasm marks I-Day

In another function, Dr Alexander dedicated a unique war memorial at the Morwada junction in Pune Sub Area to the nation.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) felicitated as many as 548 citizens at a function held at the Balgandharva Rangmandir. Mayor Vatsala Andekar pesented them bouquets and mementos.

The Mayor justified the decision of the party leaders’ coordination committee to honour so many citizens saying, “I know their number is large but they are all social workers.”

In Pimpri-Chinchwad Mayor Hanumanth Bhosale unfurled the national flag at the municipal corporation building at Pimpri. Municipal Commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi, deputy mayor Rekha Gawde, other elected office-bearers, corporators, citizens and school students were present on the occasion.

The garden department of the PCMC had artfully decorated the building premises.

At a function organised by Pune City Congress Committee, senior Congress leader V N Gadgil hoised the national tricolour at the Congress Bhavan. The Maharashtra Military Foundation organised the flag hoisting ceremony at the old war memorial near Sassoon Hospital to mark the occasion.