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Urali Draws Up Devp Plan, To Be Funded By PMC, Will Be Handed To Distt Collector
By akansha, Section Development
Less than a month after the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) promised to fund development projects in Urali Devachi, the village has drawn up a development plan which will be submitted to the PMC via the district collector.
After the PMC's assurance to stop garbage dumping at the village in seven months, Urali Devachi residents withdrew their eight-day agitation last month. The civic body rejected the villagers' demand to adopt the village and allot Rs 10 crore for 25 years. However, it asked the villagers to draw up a development plan and hand it over to the district collector. The PMC promised to fund all the projects listed in the plan. POLITICISING GARBAGE After Urali Devachi residents took a tough stand against garbage dumping at the village site, local politicians, who had stayed away from the issue all these years, have suddenly jumped into the action. Sensing that the matter could snowball into an important political issue ahead of the state elections, they are joining villagers in their agitation and raising the matter in the state assembly. Congress MLAs Balasaheb Shivarkar, Chandrakant Chajjed and Ramesh Bagwe are demanding quick steps to solve the problem. "These leaders are forgetting that the Congress was in power in the municipal corporation all these years and they chose to neglect the issue," the villagers say. In fact, when questioned recently about this by the villagers, Shivarkar had to admit that the party and its leaders including him indeed "ignored" the problem over the years. "We have prepared a detailed development plan for the village. It will be finalised within a week and given to the district collector. All residents have contributed to it," Urali Devachi deputy sarpanch Tatya Bhadale said. He added that the plan focuses on areas like the road network, drinking water and health facilities. Source: Times Of India Urali draws up devp plan click On "Full Story" For More...
"Now the ball is in the district collector and the PMC's court. They have to provide funds and look for alternative locations for the garbage processing plants. After seven months, we will not allow any dumping," Bhadale said. "The authority over any initiative that comes up on the garbage dump site after capping should lie with the gram panchayat. This, so that we can earn some money from it," he added.
Meanwhile, PMC standing committee chairman Nilesh Nikam and mayor Rajlaxmi Bhosale assured that all the promises made to the villagers will be fulfilled. A few months ago, the committee had approved Rs 10 crore for the development of the village, which included the laying of a water pipeline and drainage system. "Work on a few projects, like a crematorium and a hospital, has started. But we are not fully satisfied. The PMC needs to speed up the work," Bhadale said. All these years, the villagers have complained that the garbage dumping has led to water contamination, turned the land barren and caused health problems. With repeated promises by the PMC of resolving the issues remaining unfulfilled, the villagers launched an agitation in April. The stir was eventually called off, but was resumed in May after the PMC failed to keep its promises again.
To add to the villagers' woes, the dumping site and the nearby villages were engulfed with smoke last month following a fire at the site. Such fires regular break out at the site, residents say, as the methane gas generated under the heaps of garbage ignites due to chemical reactions and the heat.
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