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Guess Altis well for Mayor Bankar!

City Mayor has been using her private car of official functions as she is unhappy with her old one; she gets an Altis next week

Siddharth Gadkari

Posted On Monday, August 20, 2012 at 08:41:00 AM

Mayor Bankar is apparently unhappy with her present official car (above) as the doors and windows don’t ‘work properly’
Even the Mayor has car trouble sometimes. Vaishali Bankar is so disappointed with the performance of the Corolla given to her for official purposes that she is using her private Maruti Swift for the last three days. Now, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has decided to give the Mayor a new contractor-owned Corolla Altis which will be made available to her next week.

The State government’s Urban Development (UD) department has set a Rs 7.5 lakh limit for buying new cars for Mayors of Grade A corporations. To buy a new car, the old one should either have crossed 2.4 lakh km or be older than ten years. Bankar’s old car has not fulfilled either of these criteria.

However, Bankar herself registered a complaint at the vehicle depot about the poor performance of her old Corolla which was purchased during the tenure of then Congress Mayor Rajani Tribhuvan seven years ago. Sanjay Pol, in-charge of PMC’s vehicle department said, “The Mayor’s car is in good condition.
 
It has not been sent for any repairs. However, the administration is working on a proposal to give her a new car which will be here next week.” Pol added, “The price of the new Altis is almost Rs 19 lakh. Since the Mayor cannot purchase a new car yet, the administration is going to give her a car that a contractor purchased for a Phursungi-based garbage capping project.

As per the terms and conditions mentioned in the contract, the contractor should have purchased a separate car for this project. So, we are going to give the contractor the Mayor’s old car.”

Bankar’s husband Sunil said, “The car is not in good condition. One of the doors doesn’t open easily, the windows also don’t work properly.” Bankar herself confirmed that she is using her own car for official functions, but avoided giving reasons why she was not using the Corolla.







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