Editing Pune (section)

==Government and politics==
{{Main|Pune Municipal Corporation|Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation|Pune Police|PMRDA}}

===Civic administration===
[[File:Pune Municipal Corporation building in October 2023.jpg|thumb|left|[[Pune Municipal Corporation]] building]]
[[Pune Municipal Corporation]] and [[Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation]] are the civic bodies responsible for [[Municipal governance in India|local government]]. It comprises two branches, the executive branch headed by the Municipal Commissioner, an [[Indian Administrative Service|IAS]] officer appointed by the [[Government of Maharashtra]], and an elected deliberative branch, the general body, headed by the [[Mayor of Pune]].<ref name=":4">{{cite web|url=https://pmc.gov.in/sites/default/files/pmc_administrative_structure.pdf|title=PMC Administrative Structure|website=Official Website of Pune Municipal Corporation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705155143/https://pmc.gov.in/sites/default/files/pmc_administrative_structure.pdf|archive-date=5 July 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Municipal elections are held every five years to elect councillors, commonly known as "corporators", who form the general body. The current general body of the PMC elected in February 2017 has 162 corporators representing 41 multi-member wards (39 with 4 corporators each and 2 with 3 each).<ref name="PMC2017winningcandidates">{{cite web|url=https://pmc.gov.in/en/pmc-election-2017-winning-candidate-list|title=PMC ELECTION 2017 WINNING CANDIDATE LIST|access-date=13 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913184428/https://pmc.gov.in/en/pmc-election-2017-winning-candidate-list|archive-date=13 September 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The general body, in turn, elects the mayor and the deputy mayor. The mayor has a ceremonial role as the first citizen and ambassador of the city while the actual executive power lies with the municipal commissioner. For policy deliberations, corporators form several committees. Perhaps the most important of these is the 16-member Standing Committee, half of whose members retire every year.<ref name=":5">{{cite web|url=https://pmc.gov.in/sites/default/files/miscellaneous/%2802%29%20The%20Mah.%20Municipal%20Corporation%20Act%20%28H-4062%29.pdf|title=Maharashtra Municipal Corporation Act, 1949|website=Official Website of the Pune Municipal Corporation|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171229103448/https://pmc.gov.in/sites/default/files/miscellaneous/%2802%29%20The%20Mah.%20Municipal%20Corporation%20Act%20%28H-4062%29.pdf|archive-date=29 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The Standing Committee and the 15 ward committees are in charge of financial approvals.<ref name=":4" /> PMC was ranked 8th out of 21 Indian cities for best governance and administrative practices in 2014. It scored 3.5 out of 10 compared to the national average of 3.3.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://janaagraha.org/asics/images/Annual-Survey-of-Indias-City-Systems-2014.pdf|title=Annual Survey of India's City-Systems|last1=Nair|first1=Ajesh|publisher=Janaagraha Centre for Citizenship and Democracy|access-date=7 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319003215/http://janaagraha.org/asics/images/Annual-Survey-of-Indias-City-Systems-2014.pdf|archive-date=19 March 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

The [[Pune Police|Pune City Police Department]] is the law enforcement agency for the city of Pune. It is a division of the [[Maharashtra Police]] and is headed by the [[Police Commissioner of Pune|Police Commissioner]], an officer of the [[Indian Police Service]]. The Pune Police Department reports to the State Ministry of Home Affairs. A separate police commissionerate was announced for [[Pimpri-Chinchwad|PCMC, Pune]] in April 2018 to be carved out of the historic Pune Police Department.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/police-commissionerate-for-pimpri-chinchwad-gets-state-nod/articleshow/63703600.cms|title=Police commissionerate for Pimpri Chinchwad gets state nod|work=The Times of India|access-date=27 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625072811/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/police-commissionerate-for-pimpri-chinchwad-gets-state-nod/articleshow/63703600.cms|archive-date=25 June 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/rs-323-crore-set-aside-for-new-pimpri-chinchwad-police-commissionerate/story-ckEdDzI8oA02adbclgzudN.html|title=Rs 323 crore set aside for New Pimpri Chinchwad Police Commissionerate|date=4 April 2018|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=27 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180428093547/https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/rs-323-crore-set-aside-for-new-pimpri-chinchwad-police-commissionerate/story-ckEdDzI8oA02adbclgzudN.html|archive-date=28 April 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The new commissionerate took charge on 15 August 2018.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/rk-padmanabhan-takes-over-as-pimpri-chinchwad-police-commissioner/story-YWU432kcWGjxAIuOgJVG5N.html|title=RK Padmanabhan takes over as Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissioner|date=31 July 2018|work=Hindustan Times|access-date=4 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803015544/https://www.hindustantimes.com/pune-news/rk-padmanabhan-takes-over-as-pimpri-chinchwad-police-commissioner/story-YWU432kcWGjxAIuOgJVG5N.html|archive-date=3 August 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-mumbai/new-police-chiefs-for-navi-mumbai-thane/article24558335.ece|title=New police chiefs for Navi Mumbai, Thane|agency=Press Trust of India|date=31 July 2018|work=The Hindu|access-date=4 August 2018|issn=0971-751X|archive-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806131254/https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-mumbai/new-police-chiefs-for-navi-mumbai-thane/article24558335.ece|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority]] (PMRDA) was formed on 31{{spaces}}March 2015 and is responsible for the integrated development of the PMR.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pmrda-formed-to-push-projects-on-fast-track/|title=PMRDA formed to push projects on fast track|access-date=7 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007211825/http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/pmrda-formed-to-push-projects-on-fast-track/|archive-date=7 October 2015|url-status=live|date=29 March 2015}}</ref> Currently its jurisdiction extends over {{convert|7,256.46|km2|0|abbr=on}} and includes two [[Municipal corporations in India|municipal corporations]], three cantonment boards, seven municipal councils, 13 [[Census town#India|census towns]] and 842 villages.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

[[File:Khadakwasla Dam image.JPG|thumb|Khadakwasla reservoir, the main source of water for the city]]

===Utility services===
The PMC supplies the city with potable water that is sourced from the [[Khadakwasla]] Reservoir. There are five other reservoirs in the area that supply water to the city and the greater metropolitan area.<ref name="tirthkar">Tirthkar, S.N., 2009. Master plan 2025 of Pune Municipal Corporation for sewage treatment and disposal. J Inst Public Health Eng, 2, pp.13–19.[http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Master%20plan%202025%20of%20Pune.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210180344/http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/Master%20plan%202025%20of%20Pune.pdf|date=10 February 2018}}</ref>
The city lacks the capacity to treat all the sewage it generates, which leads to the Mutha river containing only sewage outside the monsoon months.<ref>Wagh, G.K. and Ghate, H.V., 2003. Freshwater fish fauna of the rivers Mula and Mutha, Pune, Maharashtra. Zoos' Print Journal, 18(1), pp.977–981.</ref> In 2009 only 65% of sewage generated was treated before being discharged into the rivers.<ref name="tirthkar" /> According to Anwesha Borthakur and Pardeep Singh, unplanned and haphazard development has turned the Mula-Mutha river into a dead river. The Pune municipal corporation has undertaken plans to restore life into the rivers.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40974-016-0039-2.pdf|title=India's lost rivers and rivulets|author1=Anwesha Borthakur|author2=Pardeep Singh|journal=Energ. Ecol. Environ.|date=2016|volume=1|issue=5|pages=310–314|doi=10.1007/s40974-016-0039-2|bibcode=2016EEE.....1..310B |s2cid=132360046|access-date=28 October 2021|archive-date=23 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211123141808/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40974-016-0039-2.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> PMC is also responsible for collecting solid waste. Around 1,600 tons of solid waste is generated in Pune each day. The waste consists of 53% organic, compostable material; and 47% inorganic material, of which around half is recyclable. The unrecovered solid waste is transported to the dumping grounds in Urali devachi.<ref>Butsch, C., Kumar, S., Wagner, P.D., Kroll, M., Kantakumar, L.N., Bharucha, E., Schneider, K. and Kraas, F., 2017. Growing 'Smart'? Urbanization Processes in the Pune Urban Agglomeration. Sustainability, 9(12), p.2335 [http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/12/2335] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118123933/http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/9/12/2335|date=18 January 2018}}</ref>

The state owned [[Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited]] supplies electricity to the city. [[Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited]] (BSNL), owned by the [[Government of India|central government]], as well as private enterprises such as [[Jio|Reliance Jio]], [[Bharti Airtel]] and [[Vodafone Idea]] are the leading telephone and cell phone service providers in the city.<ref name="trai ar 11 wire">{{cite web|title=Annual report 2010–11|url=http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/UserFiles/Documents/AnuualReports/ar_10_11.pdf|publisher=Telecom Regulatory Authority of India|access-date=13 June 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120526230024/http://www.trai.gov.in/WriteReadData/UserFiles/Documents/AnuualReports/ar_10_11.pdf|archive-date=26 May 2012}}</ref>{{rp|25–26}}{{rp|179}}

[[File:New building of Sassoon Hospital, Pune.jpg|thumb|One of the oldest hospitals in India, [[Sassoon Hospital]]]]

===Healthcare===
{{See also|List of hospitals in Pune}}
Healthcare in the PMR is provided by private and public facilities. Primary care is provided by practitioners of [[Allopathic medicine]] as well as traditional and alternative medicine (i.e. ''[[Ayurved]]'', [[Homeopathy]] and [[Unani]]). For minor and chronic ailments, people in the region often rely on practitioners of traditional medicine.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Warner|editor-first1=Koko|editor-last2=Bohle|editor-first2=Hans-Georg |last=Butsch|first=Carsten |title=Megacities Resilience and Social Vulnerability, Section 2: Access to Healthcare in the Fragmented Setting of India's Fast Growing Agglomerations – a Case Study of Pune|date=2008|publisher=UNU Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)|isbn=978-3-939923-12-1|page=70|url=http://www.munich-re-foundation.com/de/dms/MRS/Documents/Source2008_Bohle_WarnerMegacities.pdf#page=64|access-date=22 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323031018/http://www.munich-re-foundation.com/de/dms/MRS/Documents/Source2008_Bohle_WarnerMegacities.pdf#page=64|archive-date=23 March 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>
The PMR is served by three government hospitals: [[Sassoon Hospital]], Budhrani and Dr Ambedkar Hospital. There are also a number of private hospitals such as Ranka Hospital, [[Sahyadri Hospital|Sahyadri]], Jahangir Nursing Home, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Sancheti Hospital, [[Aditya Birla Memorial Hospital]], [[Somwar Peth#KEM Hospital|KEM Hospital]], [[Ruby Hall Clinic|Ruby Hall]], Naidu Hospital<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.practo.com/pune/hospital/dr-naidu-hospital-pune|title=Dr. Naidu Hospital, Multi-Speciality Hospital in Sangamvadi, Pune – Book Appointment Online, View Reviews, Contact Number &#124; Practo|website=Practo.com|access-date=25 February 2020|archive-date=25 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225103044/https://www.practo.com/pune/hospital/dr-naidu-hospital-pune|url-status=live}}</ref> and Smile Inn Dental Clinic Pune.<ref>{{cite web |title=Best Multispeciality Hospital {{!}} Smile Inn Dental Clinic Pune {{!}} Smile Inn Dental Clinic Pune |url=https://smileinn.in/ |website=Smileinn.in |access-date=14 January 2022 |archive-date=14 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114044531/https://smileinn.in/ |url-status=live }}</ref>