Pune: Doorstep delivery attempt at societies

TNN | Updated: Apr 15, 2020, 07:07 IST

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PUNE: The Haveli and Lonikand police have chalked out an elaborate plan to ensure supply of vegetables, foodgrain and essential items to housing societies in the fringe areas for the next fortnight.
The Haveli police are focusing on areas such as Dhayari, Nanded, Kirkitwadi and some parts of Narhe. The Lonikand police, on the other hand, are drawing the plan for Wagholi and its surrounding areas
Inspector Ashok Shelke of the Haveli police station told TOI that villages such as Dhayari and Nanded developed in the past 10-15 years. “Many highrises have have come up in these areas. The residents of these societies will not be allowed to venture out. They will get vegetables at the society gates,” he said.
Police officers conducted meetings with the local vegetable vendors and the village heads on Sunday. “The village heads allowed the vendors to function at the entrance of the societies. The vendors agreed to shift their current base,” Shelke said.
The police also had discussions with the presidents and chairpersons of these societies and the latter agreed to allow the vendors to set up stalls near the entrance of the buildings, he said.
The Lonikand police are functioning on the same lines and have contacted local vegetable, grain vendors and the local politicians.
The police officers and gram panchayat officials are painting boxes near the entrance gates of the societies for the residents to wait for their turn to buy the essential items in accordance with the social distancing norms.
Tejas Chavan, chairman of a society in Dhayari, said many residents were worried about possible overpricing of essential items.