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PUNE: The Pune police and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) have rejected permissions to 34 Ganapati mandals who had applied for permission to put up their pandals.

The traffic branch of the Pune police rejected permissions to 19 mandals, police stations rejected five and the civic authorities denied permissions to 10 mandals.

The police and the civic authorities have started processing the online applications . The last date for submission of online application is August 25. There are 3,200 registered mandals in the city but only 240 have applied so far.

Deputy commissioner of police (special branch) Mitesh Ghatte told TOI that,“We have appealed to mandals to submit the online forms before August 25 on the website of the Pune police. They must follow the directives of the Bombay high court while putting up their pandals on the roads,” he said.

They must not encroach upon the carriageway of the roads and leave space for the vehicles, ambulances and fire brigade tenders, he said.

The traffic branch of the Pune police rejected permissions to 19 mandals, police stations rejected five and the civic authorities denied permissions to 10 mandals.

