Pune: Residents of Wagholi, Khadakwasla, Sus, Manjri and other regions joining the corporate boundaries Pune Municipal on Wednesday can now expect the development of infrastructure and provision of civil facilities, while the body of the Civic will have a challenging task of meeting their high expectations.
, A senior official from Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) said that citizenship administration certainly needed more employees and a better budget allocation to care for the combined area.
“The Civic body cannot only rely on taxes that will be collected from new regions.
We need special funds to carry out development work in the villages join.
Also, workers are burdened.
Provision of more staff is needed to fulfill these fields.
PMC Must conduct surveys and studies in the new field, where administration will require labor, “the official said.
Mayor Muralidhar Mohol and Head of the City Unit BJP Jagdish Mulik also demanded fund allocation for the development of new areas.
“Mergers are a welcome step, but the state government must now allocate at least RS9,000 Crore for development work.
Even the citizenship administration, in its feedback, recommends the state government for the allocation of RS9,000 Crore for joining villages.
The government must also Give new post sanctions and fill in blank posts at PMC, “Mohol said.
City planning experts emphasize that PMC will face the challenges of holistic planning for the overall development in these fields, in addition to handling illegal construction and encroachment.
If not, developments will take their own time, they say.
Planning Expert Ramchandra Gohad said, “We have examples of villages that join in the city in the past few decades still awaiting overall development.
New areas entered should not continue to face similar challenges.” Gohad also questioned the need for a merger because the government had established authority The construction of the Pune Metropolitan area (PMRDA) to handle peripheral regions.
However, some residents from the villages join the steps.
Yogesh Patil of Wagholi said, “Merger with PMC is good news for all of us here.
We hope all problems related to water supply, garbage disposal, roads and drainage paths will be improved soon.
Wagholi also requires government elementary school.” Chetan Khade from Khadakwasla has a piece of suggestion for PMC.
“Now you have to focus on developing infrastructure, while remembering the ecological interests of the area Stretching from the Machine Khadi Chowk to Mantarwadi is active, the internal road conditions must increase.
” Patil Prasad from Bavdhan Budrup said, “We are ready to pay taxes but want better facilities and planned development.
Water supply must be increased.” The PMC population is estimated to increase four lakh after the merger of 23 villages.
According to the district administrative letter submitted to the state government in January 2014, these villages have a population of 1.98 lakh.
The decision to combine 34 suburban villages in civil regions was taken in 2013-14, but only 11 – nine partially and two fully – combined in PMC limits in 2017.
This time, “the entire area of ​​Revenue Village” was included in the PMC limit.