Stormy PMC meet on the cards

The fresh queries raised concern specific cases like Hotel Lily’s Garden on Pune-Satara road, Hotel Shantai at Rasta Peth, multi-storey residential/ commercial buildings like Navrang Apartment and Rohan Corner off Paud road, Mihir Terrace and Sneha Vihar Complex at Aundh, besides, other unspecified constructions in downtown Budhwar Peth, Erandwane, Dhankawdi, Bibwewadi, Aundh and the 36 fringe villages merged into the municipal limits.

Interestingly, while the Congress and Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi corporators are at the forefront raising queries about unauthorised constructions and violations thereof, their Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) counterparts appear to be more concerned about the fate of the multi-crore water supply and sewerage augmentation scheme.

The BJP is likely to take the administration to task on this issue with full force with party corporators – Suhas Kulkarni, Balasaheb Mokate, Ashok Yenpure, Ujjwal Keskar – raising as many as eight queries related to the mega scheme.

Meanwhile, Congress corporators yesterday urged Pune Municipal Commissioner Rajiv Agarwal to inspect the buildings of all big hotels in the city in the wake of major violations of civic development control (DC) rules at Holiday Inn and the under construction Brahma-Bajaj hotel project, coming to light recently.

The inspection drive should be undertaken on a war-footing during the next 15 days to clear the doubts likely to have cropped up in the minds of the citizens about the municipal administration’s competence to deal with the large-scale violations of civic rules by the big hotels, according to the memorandum submitted to Agarwal by the Congressmen.