Hong Kong Lane Pune |  In the year 1986, the Pune Municipal Corporation General Body had taken a resolution regarding the concrete construction of 25 stalls in R Deccan Mall i.e. Hong Kong Lane (Hong King Lane Pune).  The municipal corporation would get good income from it.  However, this resolution was not implemented by the municipal administration.  This is in a way an insult to the main assembly.  Therefore, the municipal corporation has to be satisfied with the meager income.  On the other hand, the stall holders are earning lakhs per month.  Therefore, even now, will the municipality make a concrete structure in the lane and give the coal at a higher rate?  Such a question is being raised on this occasion.  (Pune Municipal Corporation News)

 Deccan Talkies in Deccan Gymkhana Area Pune and on FC Road Pune in Pune City is now a place owned by the Municipal Corporation in R Deccan Mall.  There are 25 lumps in this place.  Customers get all kinds of goods in it.  It has a legend that you can get what you can’t get anywhere else in Pune.  Mobile accessories, watches, essential cosmetics for women and men are available here.  Since this is a strategic location, the shopkeepers here earn lakhs of rupees a month.  But even though this is a Municipal Corporation site, the Corporation has to be satisfied with the meager ground rent.  But it is the municipal administration’s fault.  (Hong Kong lane FC Road Deccan Pune)

 Because the [Hong Kong Lane] stall holders had given a letter to the Municipal Corporation on 18/11/85 regarding the construction of pavement.  It said that 25 stalls measuring 10 x 5 feet in total in Deccan Docks have been given on ground rent by the Municipal Corporation.  As the stalls are very dilapidated and waterlogged, instead of wooden stalls, it is necessary to build concrete blocks of the same size instead of wooden stalls.  When feedback was sought from land acquisition, health, development planning, road department, building design department and construction permission department, the feedback of all the departments was favorable.  Accordingly, the resolution was approved by the main meeting through the standing committee.

 |  What was the resolution of the General Body on 1 September 1986?

 A total of 25 stalls measuring 10 feet by 5 feet have been provided by the municipality on ground rent in Deccan Talkies’ bolas.  As the said stalls are very dilapidated and eroded by the rain, wooden stalls should be replaced at that place to build concrete blocks of the same size and the existing stall holders are approved to rent space for the shop as shown in the maps attached to the letter of the Hon’ble Commissioner for a period of 30 years on conditions 1 to 19 of the letters of the Hon’ble Commissioner.  is being given.

 |  What should the administration do?

 Municipal administration especially Municipal Commissioner and Encroachment Department should implement this.  But no decision has been taken till now.  At present, the municipal corporation receives a rent of Rs 200 per shop per day.  Had the resolution been implemented, the municipality would have received Rs 1000 per day.  There are many places of municipal corporation in the city where concrete construction should be done and the coals should be auctioned.  Such is the place near Saras Bagh.  The municipal corporation has planned to make a food mall there.  On the same lines, a two-storied building should be constructed in Hong Kong Lane and the coals should be auctioned.  The municipal corporation will also get good income from this.