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Decision on PCNTDA in two weeksThe state government is likely to take a decision within the next fifteen days regarding the Pimpri Chinchwad...

Decision on PCNTDA in two weeks
The state government is likely to take a decision within the next fifteen days regarding the Pimpri Chinchwad New Township Development Authority (PCNTDA) in wake of the enquiry committee report submitted by Pune divisional commissioner Arun Bhatia.

A division bench of the Bombay High Court comprising Chief Justice M B Shah and Justice R M S Khandeparkar on Tuesday heard the case and gave the state government a period of fifteen days to take a decision regarding PCNTDA. The next hearing of the case will be on July 2.

State advocate general C J Sawant told the High Court that the government has received the divisional commissioner’s enquiry report into the allegations regarding mismanagement and corruption at the PCNTDA and was deciding its future course of action.

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A freedom fighter from Chinchwad, Ramchandra Deshmukhe had filed a writ petition in the High Court alleging corruption and mismanagement at PCNTDA. His counsel in the court Shrihari Rane urged that in wake of the findings of the report, the present PCNTDA chairman Agasti Kanitkar should be dismissed from his post.

Advocate General Sawant in reply told the court that the government could withdraw his appointment, but there was no provision to suspend the chairman. Sawant gave an assurance to the court that the government will take action after considering the recommendations of the enquiry report.

The division bench said that the court would wait for a period of fifteen days and see what action the government would take on its own regarding the matter.

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