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Water supply will be closed on Thursday to Paud road, Shashtrinagar, Bhusari colony, Sus road, Bawdhan, Bhugaon, Baner, Warje high way, Pashan, Dahanukar colony, karvenagar, Mahatma Society and Gandhi Bhavan. These parts of city will not get water between 9am to 6pm because of some repairing work in electricity supply line.

The areas under water cut will be dhanori, Kalas, Vidyanagar, Lohagaon, Mhaskewadi, Santnagar, Wagholi, Gurav wasti and Dadachi Padal.

Areas under Pimpri-Chinchwad will not get water in the evening on Thursday. The areas including Rannagar, Trveninagar, Mohannagar, Sector no 22, Yamunanagar, Mhada, Ajmera, Neharunagar, Kasarwadi, Kharalwadi Gawlimatha and Phugewadi will face the water cut on Thursday. People may get water on Friday morning with low pressure.

The Pune crime branch has arrested two security supervisors working at private firm at Mundhwa for stealing cheques from the office and withdrawing Rs 7.25 lakh cash. It is happened in May this year.

The suspects of the incident have been identified as Mangesh Balaram Yerunkar (38) resident of Yerawada and Sharad Harbarao Shinde (35). Police have arrested their crime partner Sharda Dikonde. Sashi Pratap Chavan (38) of Range Hill registered a complaint. The incident came into light on June 4 when complainant Shashi Chavan went to withdraw the cash from bank and found that the cash is already withdrawn from his account.

According to inspector Kishore Jadhav of anti-extortion cell the two suspects were working as supervisor in the same company of the complainant’s husband. The suspect Shinde had stolen some cheques from cheque book and kept it in the drawer. Yerunkar did fake signatures of chavan on four cheques.

They also opened a fake account using name as Dikonde in a co-operative bank and deposited three cheques of Rs two lakh each and fourth one of Rs 75,000. They also encashed Rs 2.50 lakh from the bank account of chavan. After that they withdraw Rs 4.75 lakh from the bank account of cooperative bank and used Dikonde’s flat at Hadpsar to keep the cash.

With the help of bank account police succeed to mark down the suspects and find out the crime during interrogation. Police succeed to collect all the cash from them.

The investigation team was included with assistant police inspector Krantikumar patil, police constables Kashinath Jagtap, Pravin Shrike, Mahadev Dimble, Kashinath Ubhe and Pradip Jambhle.

The traders have been warned by the Dehu Road Cantonment Board to keep their shops clean other wise they will lost their trader licenses.

Brig R S Rathore president of the DCB said that they would cancel the trade licenses if the shops in the vegetable, mutton and fish market fail to maintain hygienic condition.

The drive is expected to be in action at this end. The market areas will be inspected and a team of doctors is going to manage the inspection of market. Three doctors of the army sanitation group will be the part of the team.

The main market of the Dehu Road cantonment is very dirty and has very narrow roads and chaotic parking along both sides of the road. The other factor disturbing the environment is a huge garbage dump, which is placed behind the market.

According to Rathore the separate place will be provided for hawkers who sell readymade products using one end of the road. A separate place will help to reduce the overcrowding in the market. Rathore also said that they are thinking to ask the traders to remove the extensions in front of their shops.

The results of MPSC examination conducted in 2006 were declared on Sunday. This year girls leaded the Maharashtra Public Service Commission (MPSC) results chart. Pune’s Shama Dhok scored 1190 marks out of 1800 and stands first. Prashali Jadhav of Satara and Pournima Chaugule came second and third respectively.

Pune’s lad Nileshkumar Kshirsagar came fourth and received the post of deputy collector. However, he stood first among boys. Both the top rankers are graduates in agriculture (horticulture).

The recommendation list has been declared for around 420 posts for 14 cadres such as deputy collector group A, deputy chief executive officer group A, chief officer municipal council group A and group B, deputy superintendent of police-assistant commissioner of police group A (DAYS/CAP), Maharashtra finance accounts services groups A and B and district deputy registrar group.

Shama Dhok stood first for the post of deputy collector group A in the recommendation list. She scored 1190 marks and Prashali Jadhav and Pournima Chaugule followed her by scoring 1180 and 1157 marks respectively. Nileshkumar Kshirsagar and Harishchandra Patil scored 1139 and 1134 marks respectively. About 18 candidates are recommended for this post.

The admission forms to the arts, science and commerce for first year senior college will be distributed from Friday in most of colleges.

Ferguson College is most wanted college in city, which has introduced their admission forms online from this year. Principle R G Paradeshi have announced about this. Students looking for Fergusson college forms may go through the college website www.fergusson.edu and click on the Line Admission’ link. After completion of form students need to take a print out of the same and have to submit it to the college office along with required support documents.

All the senior colleges having junior colleges are going to give first preference to the students from their junior colleges. Some colleges have allocated divisions of 120 seat capacity each for the students from their junior colleges. There will be separate division for outside Maharashtra students.

The compulsion is made by the state government rule for all colleges to reserve 10 seats for the students outside of Maharashtra.

The Pune Municipal Corporation and Pune traffic police has decided to draw a blueprint for the management of traffic in city. The decision was taken in the joint meeting held on Thursday between officials of PMC and traffic police and the meeting was conducted by Manoj Patil (DCP of traffic) and Mahesh Zagade (Municipal Commissioner).

Vivek Kharvadkar, additional city engineer (roads) said that the issues regarding to transportation and traffic such as footpaths, one-way systems, signals and many other issues were discussed in the meeting. He further said that the civic body and police are looking to draw a blueprint on traffic management in city very soon.

Manoj Patil DCP (traffic) said that they had discussed about the improvement and organization of signals, zebra-crossings and management between police and PMC. They also discussed on the traffic jams in various parts of city and the ways to decrease it.

The dividers on the Fergusson College road are removed to make it one way. However the resident has refused this decision. The residents who live along the bhandarkar road or near by areas have written letters to the Pune Municipal Corporation. They mentioned in their letter that the removal of divider blocks is creating trouble to walkers.

One of residents Sunita Kale living close by said that the removal of dividers since one month has created various problems. The residents demanded for permanent agreement government instead of putting temporary barricades that will disallow to take turnover from anywhere. Most of residents disagree with the decision of one way on FC road.

According to residents there is very much difficulty in crossing roads even when there are road dividers in place, now there is more difficulty to cross the road because of removing road dividers. Residents demanded for strict action against the vehicle owners who drives rashly creating problems to walkers.

The residents mentioned in the letter that lanes connecting the Fergusson College and Apte road very narrow and overcrowding and are fear about the increase in traffic.

However, the traffic authority has declared that the one way will not come into effect till the proper arrangement for the walkers are not made. They have planned the additional crossing for walkers that are to be decided jointly by both traffic department and civic activists.

Around 80 rickshaw drivers of Pimpari-chinchwad have been fined by traffic police for not playing their autos by meter. The decision of the playing autos on meter was launched on Monday.

While, on the first day about 23 rickshaw drivers were fined and on second day the number was increased to 34. Another 23 drivers were fined on Wednesday.

This meter based services of rickshaws is installed by Deputy Commissioner of traffic police Manoj Patil in the areas of Vallabhnagar in Pimpari with members of senior citizens federation. According to police inspector Vinayak Tilekar of Pimpri traffic branch, five inspectors, eight sub-inspectors and other 35 staff members had participated in the drive on Tuesday.

According to rickshaw drivers it is not economically viable to play the autos on meter in the areas of Pimpari-Chinchwad because of the widely spread layout of the twin township. The authority had given much time for drivers to play their rickshaws by meter.

Meanwhile the rickshaw unions have decided to send a massage to the chief minister and started movement by taking signature among rickshaw drivers. Many of drivers are not playing their autos to avoid the ongoing action by police.

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to provide wet garbage and hotel waste to farmers for composting. The civic body has also promised that the garbage will be transported at the farmlands with free of cost.

There is about 1,100 to 1,500 tonnes of solid waste generating daily in city including 250 tonnes wet garbage. Recently the Urali-Devachi villagers had refused the dumping of garbage in their village. Still there is no nay solution by PMC and they asked for seven months to find out the solution regarding to garbage problem.

The standing committee also decided to pay Rs 10 lakh for an area of 3.5 acres to shift the Ramwadi octroi post.

The development plan has sanctioned for Dehu-Alandi and for Pandharpur by state government. Government has assigned Rs 132 crore for this development. Dilip Band, divisional commissioner said that Dehu and Bhanadara hill are the place where sant-poet Tukaram used to go for the meditation and achieved religious enlightenment.

Chandrakant Dalvi district collector, Zilla parishad chief executive officer Sanjeev Kumar, former MLA Krushnarao Bhegade, trustee of Bhandara hill Balasaheb Kashid, sarpanch Shubhangi More, deputy sarpanch Prakash Hagawane and Karale Patil and other trusties of Bhandara hill inspected the area going under development. The trustee donated five acre of land for the development.

The land Dehu of sant Tukaram is a little town and not having any development from two decades. According to Band development project will help to change the entire look of town. The number of devotees visiting everyday to the town is about 2000 and on auspicious days the number goes up to two lakh.

According to Band the earlier development plan for Dehu had initiated in 1992 by Union agricultural minister Sharad Pawar. However, now the planning commissioner has approved Rs 132 crore for the overall development.

Dalvi said that the plan will include improvement in parking facilities at Ambedkar chowk, widening of roads in Dehugaon, construction of new bridge in Dehu and providing residential facilities for devotees. This development plan will help to increase the income along with makeover of the town.

Dehu has a population around 25,000 at present but having lack of public toilets, street lights, bypass roads and clean and safe drinking water sources. About sewage, it flows only 20 percent in to the drainage and the pollution is increasing in Indrayani that is to leading the problem.

Dalvi further said that the district administration has managed a survey and has drawn some plans for the development of Dehu to make it better town.