Pune Civic Properties at Risk Due to No GPS Mapping
PUNE: The Pune Municipal Corporation’s plan to map its 3,000 properties via GPS to protect them from encroachment remains unfinished even after five years. The initiative was launched in 2021-22, prompted by the discovery that a municipal community hall was being misused for weddings by a former corporator. A contractor was subsequently hired to execute the project, but activists report that it appears to have stalled. Vijay Kumbhar from Surajya Sangharsh Samiti, a citizens’ group, remarked, “The project has not delivered the desired results and seems to have been sidelined, especially as the civic body is initiating another round of…