The Indian Flag flies alongside Japan’s at Okayama conference. PMC officials say junket was \'private’.  

June 26, 2014

Never mind the recent furore over official foreign tours by MLAs from Karnataka and Goa, An RTI reveals that Pune’s councillors and officials went on a Japan trip, flouting FCRA norms and model code of conduct. Unfazed, they are contemplating a trip to Indonesia as well

Vinita Deshmukh

Seventeen officials and corporators of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), led by Pune’s Mayor, Chanchala Korde, conducted a supposedly `private’ tour to Japan between May 24 and May 30. On returning, they hurriedly passed a Standing Commitee resolution (with an approving nod from each and every political party, without exception) for the construction of a fancy 22 km Light Rail Transit (LRT) project from Shivajinagar to Hinjewadi.

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