PUNE: A meeting of senior police officers and government officials, chaired by deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, in Mumbai on Monday approved the proposals for setting up six new police stations in Pune city, besides three in Pimpri Chinchwad and one in Pune rural.
In Pune city, the new police stations would be Wagholi, Kharadi, Kalepadal, Phursungi, Nanded City and Baner. Mhalunge, Ravet and Shirgaon police stations would come up in Pimpri Chinchwad. Uruli Kanchan would be the new addition to police stations in rural Pune. An office of the sub-divisional police officer would be opened at Shirur near Pune.
State home minister Anil Deshmukh, MLAs Ashok Pawar (Shirur), Sunil Tingre (Vadgaonsheri), Chetan Tupe (Hadapsar), additional chief secretaries Sitaram Kunte (home) and Debashish Chakravarty (finance), director-general of police Subodh Kumar Jaiswal, finance secretary Rajiv Mittal, PMRDA commissioner Suhas Divse, and Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioners Amitabh Gupta and Krishna Prakash, respectively, attended the meeting.
Wagholi, Kharadi and Phursungi police stations would be carved out of the existing police stations at Lonikand in rural Pune and Chandannagar, Wanowrie, Hadapsar and Kondhwa in Pune city. Baner police station would be carved out of the Chatushrungi (in Pune) and the Hinjewadi police station (in Pimri Chinchwad) areas, while Nanded City would be carved out of the Haveli police station area in rural Pune.
The Pune district planning committee would provide Rs1 crore each to Pune city and Pune rural police, and Rs2 crore to the Pimpri Chinchwad police for purchasing vehicles.
Pune police commissioner Amitabh Gupta said, “We wanted new police stations at Wagholi, Kharadi, Kalepadal, Baner and Nanded City. The government accepted our proposal, but it wants us to open a new police station at Phursungi. The government also wants Bavdhan, under the Pimpri Chinchwad civic limits, to be a part of the Baner police station. We shall submit fresh proposals with these in three days.”
Pimpri Chinchwad police commissioner Krishna Prakash said, “The government has agreed in principle to give three more deputy commissioners of police.”