Pune, 8th November 2025: Stock worth nearly ₹2 crore purchased by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has allegedly been lying unused for years, prompting the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) to accuse the civic administration of corruption.
According to MNS general secretary Hemant Shambhus, PMC’s stores department bought uniform fabric worth ₹75 lakh and saris worth around ₹70 lakh for Class-IV employees in 2015. Although payments were cleared, not a single employee received the fabric or saris. The items are reportedly still stored at Savitribai Phule Abhyasika in Vadgaon Budruk.
In 2023, PMC also purchased 20,000 kg of city waste treatment powder and 4,000 litres of eco-chip liquid for the Solid Waste Management Department at a cost of ₹50 lakh. This stock, too, remains unused. Shambhus claimed the chemicals have degraded over time, rendering them useless.
He alleged that despite no distribution or utilisation, the stores, solid waste management, and accounts departments focused only on processing contractor payments. MNS has demanded that responsible officials be investigated and the loss recovered from them.
PMC Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram said that after receiving the complaint, he instructed Additional Commissioner Omprakash Dive to form a three-member committee to probe the matter.
