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A prominent place to visit in the area is Kamala Nehru Park.Another place worth visiting is the Pune Fire Brigade Museum, the first of its kind in India.Also called Late Keshavrao Narayanrao Jagtap Fire Brigade Museum, the museum houses variety of equipment used by the fire department including more than 100 antique firefighting equipment including a Rolls-Royce Dennis [7] [8] Also worth ...
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Savitribai Phule Pune University's main building The city of Pune in western India includes numerous universities, colleges and other institutes. Due to its wide range of educational institutions it has been called the " Oxford of the East".
Pune Metropolitan Region (PMR) is the metropolitan region around the city of Pune. According to practical purposes, PMR comprises two Municipal Corporations of PMC, PCMC and three Cantonment Boards, spread over an area of 7,256.46 km 2. [1] [5] [6] The population of the region as per 2011 census was 7,541,946. [3]
Although Pune was known as the bicycle city of India in the 1930s, motorcycles began replacing bicycles in the 1970s; the number of motorcycles increased from five per 1,000 people in 1965 to 118 per 1,000 in 1995.
The PIN system was introduced on 15 August 1972 by Shriram Bhikaji Velankar, an additional secretary in the Government of India's Ministry of Communications. [1] [2] [3] The system was introduced to simplify the manual sorting and delivery of mail by eliminating confusion over incorrect addresses, similar place names, and different languages used by the public.
Karve-Nagar is a suburb located in Pune. Formerly known as Hingne, it was renamed after Dhondo Keshav Karve , a social reformer who advocated widow remarriage and established a Aanath Ashram and first school for girls and widows, which came to be known as Hingne Stree Shikshan Sanstha here in 1896.
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