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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION Sr.N©, Title Page N®. 1.1 About Pone MimidpEl Corporation 1-4 1.2 History ©fPEMe 5-8 13 Origlii of PiiMe MiiMicipaiity 9-21 1.4 Slgaificaiice of Study 22-49 1.5 Objectives of the Research. 50-51 IJ Scope of the study 52-52 1.7 Hypothesis 53-54 1,8 Statistica! Methods 55-55 Introdiictioii 1.1, About PEne Mimidpai Corporatioii. The Municipal Corporation of Pune (PMC) came into existence on the 15th of February 1950 and is in charge of the administration in the city of Pune. Numerous services are provided by the Municipal Corporation of Pune. Tliese services can be broadly categorized into obligatory and discretionary services. The obligatory service of the department includes construction of schools, health centers, ensuring sufficient water supply to all. Its discretionary services include maintaining public spaces like parks, museums and community halls. Apart „ from these, the PMC also works for the rehabilitation of slums and downtrodden areas. The Municipal Corporation of Pune (PMC) has the entire administration of the city under its control, a special IAS Officer chosen .by the Government of Maharashtra holds the executive power of the corporation and is known as the Municipal Commissioner. Hie coiporation consists of directly elected corporators headed by a Mayor. The mayor has few executive powers. The total number of PMC members is 151. The PMC is in charge of the civic needs and infrastracture of the metropolis. Pune is divided into forty-eight naimicipal wards, each represented by 3 members and overseen by an Assistant Municipal Commissioner for administratiye purposes. The corporators of the administration are elected by the people through a popular vote and almost all the state political parties participate in the election. The city of Pune falls under the Haveli Taluka of the District of Pune in Maharashtra and the revenue generated by this city is collected for the Government of India by collectors appointed to carry out the job. These' collectors are also in charge of maintaining the property records of the city and organizing the national elections here. Not unlike the state of affairs in other cities of the country, a Police Commissioner and an IPS Officer are the heads of the Police Department of Pune. The law and order situation in Pune is looked after by the Pune Police which is part of the state Home Ministry. National Congress Party’s Rajlaxmi Bhonsale is currently the Mayor of Pune and the present commissioner of the Pune Municipal Corporation is Mr Pravinsin^ Fardeshi. Pune has been known as Oxford of the Bast Pune-is cities of India with a glorious past, an innovative present and a promising future. 1'h.e Pune Municipal Corporation administers the city. Pune is among the greenest urban areas in the country. Pune Municipal Corporation is well known as Pime MahaNagarPalika arid serving citizens since 1950, To Serve Citizens better Pun6 Municipal Corporation has taken, initiative for erCjovemance. Presently a few big Gorporations like Persistent Systems Ltd are lending help for developing the I g"* emance systemj as a part of their social sendee initiative. A public-^ private partnership is perceived to bring tremendous changes in the future. As stated earlier, the Pune Municipal Corporation is actively engaged in providing service to the citizens in different ways, iliese services incMe- education, medical iielp, water supply etc, wMcli are obligatory. A brief Review of Education, Health «& Ofher Services ® EdacatioH,” - Pune has earned great reputation in respect of education. Students from all over India as well as from all the parts of the world come to Pune for education. In the year 1851, Mahatma Jyotiba Fhule started first school for girls and broaden the avenue of education for women in India. Today, there are many reputed educational institutions in Pune. Few of them are -S.P.Mandal, Deccan Education Society, Maharshee Karve Stree Shikshan Sanstha (Karve Institute for Education for Girls), M J.T., Bharati Vidyapeeth etc. every year around 1, 70,000 students come to Pune for education. The Pune Municipal Corporation runs 318 schools which include primary, secondary, higher secondary and technical schools. ® Health; - The Municipal Corporation takes care of health of the citizens. It provides medical service through its 14 Maternity Homes, 2 General Hospitals and 1 mobile clinic. The services provided by these hospitals have proved to be of immense use especially for the citizens who belong to lower income group. ® other Services for the welfare of slum residents > The role of Municipal Corporations in India is not confined to the provisions of basic amenities like water, roads, drainages etc only. 73’^'^ amendment in Indian Constitution has brought about a drastic change in the nature of duties of Municipal Corporations. According to this amendment, the Municipal Corporations are required to execute poverty alleviation programmes for the lower income group citizens to improve their standard of living. In 1984, the Pune Municipal Corporation launched Urban Community Development (UCD) Programme in association with Government of India and UNICEF. The Municipal Corporation implements many programmes for the welfare of women and children. The objective behind launching such schemes was to make them financially independent and improve their standard of living. This study is an attempt to analyse the performance of these schemes, making a S.W.O.T. analysis of the schemes and suggest measures for better implementation. 4 1.2. History ©f Pime According to Dr.H.D.Sankalia, an archeologist in Deccan College, Pune, Pune city has a history of around 1,50,000 years. The archeologists had found some weapons in Deccan College premises. During further research, they found some caves on a hill near Fergusson College, which supported their claim. They also found some copper and stone utensils inside a hill located at Koregaon, which is 16 kilometers distance from Pune. After these ancient evidences, we come across the evidences of Pune’s history, wMch belong to the period of two to three years B.C. Few years back, a copper plate was found in Pune, which belonged to the period of 754. This plate describes Pune as Tunyavishay’. This plate also consists of the names of the small villages around Pune like Bopkhel, Kalas, Dapodi, Bhosari etc. One more copper plate reveals the identity of Pune as Tunakvishay’, This Plate belongs to the period of 768. Hence, the evidences of the history of Pune are available since eighth century. During the above period, Pune was known by various names like Punyak, Punnak, Punyapur etc. The Rashtrakutes ruled over Pune for some time. After the Rashtrakutes, the Yadavs ruled over Pune for three centuries. The various ghats built on the river Mutha are the evidences of the rale of the Yadavas. In 1294, Allauddin Khilji defeated the last emperor of the Yadav dynasty. King Ramdev and conquered Pune. After his victory, Pune was known as ‘Kasbe Pune’. In 1320,Taghlak Khan conquered Pune from KHlji Sultan. In 1347, Hasan Kango Bahamani, a knight of Mohd.Tughlak, forcibly took over Pune from his king and the Bahamani Dynasty began in Pune. During 1347 to 1480, the Bahamanis ruled over Pune in a very efficient manner. But soon the Bahamani Dynasty was split into five pieces. Nijamshahi of Ahmadnagar and AdilshaM of Vijarur were the two major parts of this. Pune pargana was taken over by Nijamshah of Ahmadnagar. In 16th century,Maloji Bhosale, who was a manasabdar (a higher army rank) of king Adilshah, got the Jahagiri (ri^ t to rule) of Pune pargana. In 1600, Mogal king Akbar conquered the Nijamshahi of Ahmadnagar and as a result, Pune automatically became a part of his kingdom. After 20 years, in 1620 King Malikambar defeated the Mogals and regained the kingdom of Ahmadnagar and Pune. In 1621, Malikambar awarded the Jahagiri of Pune pargana and Shirval to Shahaji Bhosale, who was his loyal captain. Shahaji Bhosale looked after Pune till 1630. In 1631,Murar Jagdev, who was a knight of Bijapur’s King, attacked Pune. He looted the city and destroyed it completely. In 1636, Adilshah of Bijapur awarded the jahagiris of Pune and Supe to Shahaji Bhosale. Shahaji Bhasole appointed Dadoji Konddev as Chief administrator of Pune. Dadoji Konddev decided to reconstruct Pune. He appealed people who were residing around Pune, to come and settle down in Pune. He also constructed a small palace called ‘Lai Mahal’ for Shahaji Bhosale. Soon Pune became the capital of the jahagiri of Shahaji Bhosale. In 1656, Shivaji Bhosale, son of Shahaji Bhosale began Ms efforts to establish an independent Maratha State. For this purpose, he had to fight with Adilshah of Bijapur and the Mogals of Delhi. In May 1660, Shayeste Khan attacked Pune and took the city in his possession. He stayed in Lai Mahal and used the palace as his headquarter. In 1663, Shivaji defeated Shayeste Khan. At the same time, Shivaji shifted Ms capital from Pune to Raigad, as Pune was located on a plateau and was unsafe from defence point of view. Till the death of SMvaji, Pune was not at all a significant place. During 1730, Balaji Vishwanath, the Peshwa (Prime minister) of Shahu Maharaj took over Pune from Baji Kadam, an administrator of Nimbalkar. In 1720, the first Bajirao Peshve declared Pune as his capital and the Mstorical importance of Pune started increasing. In 1731, first Bajirao Peshwa built the Shanivar Wada. Pune rapidly flourished during the period 1731-1760, In 1761, the Marathas were defeated at Panipat. TMs incident adversely affected the rule of Marathas in Pune. As a result of this , A chaos was everywhere for some time.