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Saturday, December 27, 2008

Hurrah! it is a great citizens' victory!!!!

It was a great day of December 1 - the last day for filing objections for the Baner-Balewadi DP!

At the last count, 70,000 odd citizens filed in their objections and snubbed the state government's conspiracy to destroy Pune!

It was indeed a hectic day since morning as all the GPM activists were collecting the last lot of objections,

The Intelligent Pune office was poured with visitors and courier men delivering hundreds and hundreds of objections.

Intelligent Pune recd/collected around 10,000 objections through the day. We had to make three trips to the deputy director's office as we collected all that came till the close of the office working hours (giving half an hour space to reach the office)

Satish Khot on the last day collected another 5,000 objections, Aneeta Benninger - 1,000 objections, Ameya Jagtap around 10,000 objections, all those who played a major role in this were the Yugpath members - firebrand youngsters - all between 16 and 17 years who themselves were not eligible to give in their objections but collected around 27,000 objections; Satish Khot's National Society for Clean Cities (NSCC) collected closed to 17,000 objections, CEE and Janwani collected over 5,000 objections. Ameya Jagtap's uth-to-uth collected around 10,000 objections. We cannot leave out hundreds of invidviduals who collected from 5 to 500 objections and sent it to our office. We visited so many public gardens and got great response. Vinod Bodhankar and Narendra Chugh were kind enough to give us a maruti van to go from one place to another. Besides, we received 110 objections by the email which also have been submitted,


Vinita Deshmukh
Editor, Intelligent Pune

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