Garden Dept cancels trip to gather ideas for Moghul Garden on Sinhagad Road that is already nearing completion
Garden Department cancels trip to gather ideas for Moghul Garden on Sinhagad Road that is already nearing completion
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The Garden Department of the civic body had planned a study tour to Srinagar just to gain ideas for the Moghul Garden that is being laid on Sinhagad Road. But thanks to a writ filed in the Bombay High Court by two RTI activists, the civic body will not be able to make such trips on taxpayer money sans the permission of an HC justice.
RTI activists Juneja Singh and Vinod Jain had filed the writ against such study tours by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC).
As per a proposalu00a0 by Bandu Gaikwad and Ujjwal Keskar on June 6 in the Standing Committee, a trip to the Moghul Gardens in Srinagar was decided. The idea was to get a perspective for the PMC Moghul Garden in the PL Deshpande Udyan Complex.
The committee suggested that the Mayor, the Garden Engineer and corporators will go on the study tour. The proposal was put before the committee on priority basis and it was approved.
Juneja and Jain objected to the Kashmir trip. "When 80 per cent of the Moghal Garden is ready, what is the point in visiting the Kashmir Moghul Garden," they asked in an RTI application to the PMC.
Jain, who received a reply to the RTI application, said that now the PMC was hushing up the issue of the trip to Kashmir.u00a0 "They are now pretending no such trip was organised," Jain said.
Jain said the RTI reply had not given any details about the expenses, the number of people in the trip and whether there was any arrangement made for that in PMC budget.
Naresh Zurmure, chief garden superintendent, PMC, said that as he had recently joined, he was not aware of such a trip. "We don't have any intension of going on this trip as the situation in Kashmir is explosive," he said.
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