The environment department of Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has closed 11 ready-mix concrete plants operating sans permission from the civic body and Maharashtra Pollution Control Board. A senior officer from PCMC, on anonymity, said the complaints were received on the SARATHI portal and even written complaints and the squad from the environmental department visited these plants. Sanjay Kulkarni, head of …
At least six people were charred to death and more than five others were injured following a fire at a sparkling candle manufacturing unit near Talwade village in Pune’s Pimpri-Chinchwad area. An officer at the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation’s fire department candles were manufactured illegally inside the compound. “The fire may have been caused because the candles, generally used for birthday …
