PMC agrees to pay dues of Rs 32 crore to PMPML

Despite having over 50 per cent stakes in fiveyearold Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited PMPML the Pune Municipal Corporation is reluctant to pay dues amounting to Rs 32 crore from last year to the public transport company In the PMPML director board meet on Wednesday the civic body officials principally agreed to pay the amount after proper checking of the calculations No joyride The controversial issue of purchasing 1000 buses from Ashok Leyland was postponed in the PMPML directorrsquos meetingu00a0File Pic ldquoBoth the PMC and PimpriChinchwad Municipal Corporation PCMC are hesitant to pay their long pending dues of bus passes of their respective employees The amount is a total of Rs 154 crore The public bus service is presently running in losses amounting to Rs 60 crorerdquo pointed out Prashant Jagtap one of the directors of the PMPML committee and former deputy mayor of PMC ldquoThe result of the last meeting was that PMC should pay at least Rs 32 crore from last year which can be done without any hasslesrdquo he added The fourhourlong meeting at the PMPML headquarters at Swargate Depot was attended by the mayors commissioners and standing committee chairmen of PMC and PCMC Earlier R N Joshi chairman and managing director of PMPML Director Board had personally opened the topic of getting Rs 32 crore in the standing committee meeting held at PMC on Tuesday Vishal Tambe chairman standing committee PMC said ldquoWe are checking the number of employees using PMPML bus passes and also the amount quoted by PMPML There is no harm in paying the amount but before the payment we want to make our own calculation of the amount of the duesrdquo Tambe however did not make any clarification on the long pending dues of Rs 154 crore to PMPML Purchase delayed The controversial issue of purchasing 1000 buses from Ashok Leyland was postponed in the PMPML directorrsquos meeting The payment for these buses was to be made by paying Rs 1250 per km per bus and the company wanted advertisement rights before the full payment The total expenditure is calculated as Rs 958 crore which is much higher than the actual cost of the buses Many citizens including PMPML Pravasi Manch have opposed the purchase u00a0ldquoWe are tapping for another bus company and its offer for same number of buses for PMPMLrdquo said Deepaksingh Pardeshi PMPML PRO ldquoThis will give us some option and the purchase of the buses with the present market rates will be done by floating tenders Some decisions taken at the meet gtgt To fine 11 bus suppliers over delayed deliveries gtgtu00a0Provide employment on the merit of humanitarian background to the kins of retired employees as per the directives in PMC and PCMC gtgtu00a0Scrap the proposal of charging Rs 57 lakh as tax amount by erecting bus stops in PMC limits gtgtu00a0Making agreement with Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation MIDC on 125 acres of land at Hinjewadi for 99 years MIDC had asked Rs 5815 lakh for the concord gtgtu00a0As per the promise by Deputy CM Ajit Pawar both PMC and PCMC should make provision of 2 per cent of the budget for allocation of funds to PMPMLu00a0