Activists call to support pro-river candidates

ELECTION EXPECTATIONS - Resident activists aspire to build model city with healthy rivers & 0-carbon water management

- Indu Bhagat

"Pune River Revival" is a passionate team for the citizens' movement to revive and rejuvenate Pune rivers. The team is led by passionate residents, activists and dedicated ecologists.

Amid the ongoing Maharashtra Assembly elections, the team organised a meeting on Sunday at Vaghacha Ghat, Aundh, and released a people's manifesto to highlight that they will vote for the candidate who will meet their demands. They want Pune to become a city of healthy rivers and zero-carbon water management.

Their manifesto announced some ambitious plans to transform Pune into a model for sustainable water management and river health.