Within a day of change of guard: Relief for senior citizens as PMPML board scraps Tukaram Mundhe’s hike on passes

Within a day of the change of guard at the top, the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML), the city’s transport body, on Wednesday began undoing the legacy of previous Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) Tukaram Mundhe. The board of directors of the PMPML on Wednesday decided to withdraw the hike in the daily pass rates for senior citizens that was announced a few months ago. It also passed a resolution to take back the over 160 employees who had been sacked by Mundhe on disciplinary grounds. The decision came on a day it became known that one of those, 42-year-old Tukaram Nivrutti Mundkar, had committed suicide. Police said Mundkar, who was attached to the Market Yard bus depot of the PMPML and was sacked about a month ago for “irregular attendance”, hanged himself at his house on Tuesday night.