Mandatory use of helmets for two-wheeler riders

‘To wear or not to wear’ cannot be the question, it’s a must!

Reporters Name | CAMIL PARKHE | Thursday, 4 February 2016 AT 10:33 PM IST

    

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At last, the Maharashtra government has decided to enforce the rule of compulsory helmets for all two-wheeler riders all over the state. The rule of mandatory use of helmets has been there for many years but not implemented due to the apathy of the administration in implementing it. This has led to avoidable deaths of a large number of people, especially youngsters.

There has not been a consistent policy of the government administration and especially the police department in enforcing the rule on mandatory use of helmets. A few years ago, when a new police officer took over the charge of the traffic wing in Pune police commissionerate, he announced the strict enforcement of the rule. Accordingly, for a few months two-wheeler riders were fined for not observing the rule. This had naturally the desired effect as all those who had helmets at their homes started using them and those who did not have helmets purchased them immediately. But the enforcement was again relaxed later and now the drive on helmets rule has been totally called off. This inconsistency on the part of the police and also the government administration is totally inexplicable.

What is most important is that some major automobile giants and other industries in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad have been for the past many years strictly enforcing the rule on use of helmets on their campus areas. Having no other option, employees of these industries and also those desiring to enter these premises have been following the rule.

Use of helmets is also mandatory on campus of all defence establishments all over the country. The helmets rule has been enforced most stringently in Maharashtra’s capital, Mumbai. Why is the same rule not enforced in other cities and highways in the state?

A couple of years ago, traffic police authorities in Pune police commissionerate started strictly enforcing the rule on wearing seat belts for four-wheeler drivers and have been consistent with this policy. As a result, the rule has been observed by most four-wheeler drivers in the city. It is strange why the police authorities are not consistent with the helmet rule as well.

At the national level, too, there is no consistency on implementing the helmets rule. In some metropolitan cities and states, the rule has been enforced while other cities ignore this rule. Implementation of the rule has been left to the whims and fancies of the in-charge police officials in these cities. This is despite the fact that over 1,50,000 people die in road accidents in India every year. In Pune police commissionerate area comprising Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, every year 400 people are killed in road mishaps and of them, 200 are two-wheeler riders. Of the total 479 two-wheeler riders who were killed in road mishaps during the past two years, 477 had not worn helmets.

Deaths of these two-wheeler riders would have been surely avoided in most cases had these people worn helmets. Indeed, there are many people who understand the importance and need of wearing helmets and would use the helmets even if there is no compulsion to do so. But a large number of people would be inclined to use the helmet only if it is mandatory. During my recent visit to Goa, I witnessed a large number foreign nationals zooming fast on two-wheelers without wearing helmets. I was sure that in their own countries, these foreigners would never dare to ride even a bicycle without a helmet as otherwise they would be penalised there. That is why we cannot afford to make use of helmets as optional or voluntary. There would be a heavy price to be paid for that. There is urgent need to enforce the helmet rule all over the country and that too consistently.

Interview of Pimpri-Chinchwad's Deputy Regional Transport Officer Ajit Shinde

‘We want to ensure fast delivery of driving licences, other documents’
- CAMIL PARKHE Sakal Times Saturday, 26 July 2014 - 11:52 PM IST
Tags: PCMC, industrial township, transport, RTO, road safety, driving licences, Pimpri, Camil Parkhe

The number of vehicles in the industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad has been rising steadily. Pimpri-Chinchwad's Deputy Regional Transport Officer Ajit Shinde speaks to Camil Parkhe on his plans to ensure road safety and expedite procedure for those purchasing new vehicles, seeking driving licences and other documents.

What are the challenges faced by the deputy regional transport office in Pimpri-Chinchwad?
The vehicle population in Pimpri-Chinchwad and surrounding areas has been increasing. The transport vehicles in the city are around 90,000 and the total number of vehicles including private vehicles in the jurisdiction of our office is 11 lakh. The jurisdiction of the office includes Pimpri-Chinchwad as well as some nearby towns. This calls for measures to ensure regular inspections of all kinds of vehicles. Those seeking learner's driving licence and driving licence need to be issued the documents expeditiously and hassle-free.

What are the measures undertaken by your office to improve services to the people?
We are undertaking inspection of vehicles, private and commercial to ensure safety of the road users. The inspection involves checking brakes and vehicle documents. There is no issue of staff personnel. The autorickhaws in the city are now fitted with electronic meters. People can lodge a complaint if any of the autorickshaw drivers refuse to charge fares as per the meter reading and we will take action against the erring drivers. School transport committees comprising delegates of parents, school management and transporters are also formed to provide safe transport to school students.

What are the new facilities that are planned by your office?
My office has planned various measures to ensure transparent and expeditious functioning to provide better quality of service to people. Our office has already introduced online registration for securing learner's licences with effect from July 22. The office will shift to the new spacious premises within three to four months. We want to ensure 'zero pendency' functioning with immediate delivery of driving licences, registration certificate (RC) cards and other documents.

 

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Pune Pimpri Chinchwad Cemeteries - too small, too few, too far

Cemeteries - too small, too few, too far

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CAMIL PARKHE

The number of cemeteries for the Christian community in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad have remained the same although the population of Christians in the city has increased during the past few decades. This has posed a problem for the members of the community who are forced to travel long distances to bury their dear ones.

Dapodi is the only burial ground available to the sizable Christian community in Pimpri Chinchwad and Khadki.

The other burial grounds are located at Hadapsar, Yerawada, and near the Holkar Bridge. Farther away, there is one more Christian cemetery in the jurisdiction of the Dehu Road Cantonment Board.

There is another cemetery – the War Cemetery in Khadki, but no fresh burials are allowed here. It was created to bury the remains of mostly Allied army combatants killed during the second World War and is more of a memorial.

All the cemeteries in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad, barring the City Church cemetery at Nanapeth, are open to all Christians - Catholics as well as Protestants.

The burial grounds in Dapodi and Hadapsar have been existing since the British days and today these lands are owned by the civic bodies. These cemeteries are managed by committees having representatives of various Christian sects.

The permission for burial at the various cemeteries is given only on presentation of the death certificate issued by civic bodies and a letter from the representative of the church to which the deceased person belonged.

Due to the space crunch, the practice of selling land for construction of a tomb over the grave has been discontinued at all the cemeteries.

Encroachments on the periphery of burial grounds is another problem faced by almost all cemeteries as there are no resident care takers at these sites.

The area of the Dapodi cemetery shrunk a couple of years back when a portion of the graveyard was acquired for the widening of the Pune-Mumbai highway.

Fr Clement Raj, parish priest of St Ignatius Church in Khadki, said that Dapodi cemetery had also lost some land due to encroachments.

Unlike all other cemeteries, the City Church cemetery is used to bury only those belonging to the City Church parish and also Goans belonging to any parish in the city.

Explaining this peculiarity, City Church parish priets Fr Joe D’Souza said that the City Church, built in 1852, is the oldest church in the city and it also happens to be the only church in Maharashtra which came under the jurisdiction of the Goa diocese.

The cemetery was the property of the City Church and its parishioners were all Goans and therefore, for over a century, only Goans were buried there. In the recent past, this custom had created a conflict among the Goan and non-Goan parishioners of the church and therefore the cemetery was thrown open to all those belonging to this church.

Fr D’Souza said that due to the shrinking space at the burial ground, the church no longer permits permanent graves at the cemetery.

“The problem has become so acute that we do not allow anyone to build a permanent tomb even if the person is willing to offer Rs 50,000,” said the parish priest.

For the past few years, the City Church cemetery has been forced to follow the practice of using graves that are more than three years old for fresh burials. However, some very old tombs continue to exist in the cemetery. “It is difficult for the Church administration to seek removal of these very old graves as it is a sensitive issue,” said Fr D’Souza.

A Christian cemetery on an acre of land near Vadgaonsheri, given by the Pune Municipal Corporation, was dedicated by the Bishop of Pune on November 2, All Souls Day. The land on the banks of the Mula-Mutha was earmarked for cemetery for the past many years but no burials had taken place there due to some pending disputes, said Joe Kasbe, a local Christian leader.

Church welcomes cremation too

-Fr Joe Abraham, Chancellor of Pune diocese, said that the Catholic Church has no objection to people preferring cremation to burial as this solves the problem of space at the cemetery.

- There is no theological issue involved in this, Fr Abraham said, adding that “after cremation, the remains of the departed persons can be kept in niches on the compound walls of the cemetery.”

- Fr Abraham informed that at least three Catholics were cremated in Pune during the past decade. “The custom of cremation has been accepted more by Catholics in Mumbai,” he added.

Ignatius Church, Khadki set for Vailankanni feast

Ignatius Church, Khadki set for Vailankanni feast
- CAMIL PARKHE Tuesday, 27 August 2013 - 10:52 AM IST
Tags: church, St Ignatius Church, festival, Mother Mary, Vailankanni feast, Khadki, Pune, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Camil Parkhe

PUNE: St Ignatius Church in Khadki has geared up to conduct the novena in honour of Our Lady of Vailankanni, starting on Thursday, August 29. The feast of the birthday of Mother Mary will be celebrated on Sunday, September 8. The novena prayers and the feast will also be celebrated in all churches in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad during the same period.

St Ignatius Church will be the main centre of the novena and feast of Our Lady of Vailankanni. Thousands of devotees from various churches in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad are expected to visit the church during the 11-day-long novena, masses and feast celebrations.

The annual novena and feast celebrations will be launched at St Ignatius Church with the hoisting of the flag by Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza on August 29 evening. Bishop Thomas Dabre will be the main celebrant and preacher at the feast celebrations on September 8 evening.Like every year, a huge pandal has been erected at the church complex to accommodate the large number of people attending the religious services as a part of the novena and feast celebrations. There will also be various stalls selling religious articles, books and also a canteen run by the members of the St Vincent De Paul Society.

Everyday, main masses will be celebrated at 12 noon and at 6.30 pm. The masses will be conducted in English, Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Konkani and Malayalam. This is the 41st year of the novena of Our Lady of Vailankanni at St Ignatius Church which was inaugurated in 1876.

At St Patrick's Cathedral, the flag will be hoisted on August 29 by Pune Jesuit Provincial Fr Bhausaheb Sansare while Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza will celebrate the feast mass on September 8.

FEAST CELEBRATIONS

The novena and feast celebrations will be launched at St Ignatius Church with the hoisting of the flag by Bishop Emeritus Valerian D'Souza on August 29.

Pune churches to join June 2 prayers to set world record

Pune churches to join June 2 prayers to set world record
- CAMIL PARKHE Saturday, 1 June 2013 - 11:09 AM IST Sakal Times, Pune
Tags: prayer, Bishop, catholics, christian community, Corpus Christi, world record, Pune Camil Parkhe

PUNE: Bishop Thomas Dabre will lead Catholics in Pune diocese in prayers on the feast of Corpus Christi on June 2, as a part of the simultaneous global prayers to be presided over by Pope Francis at the Vatican. The feat is likely to create a world record.

Parishes in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad, along with parishes all over the world, are slated to simultaneously hold prayers on that day.

Pope Francis will lead the prayers to mark the feast of the body and blood of Christ at St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican on Sunday evening. In India, churches have been asked to join the prayers on Sunday at 8.30 pm to coincide with the Roman clock (5 pm local time).

Bishop Dabre will celebrate a mass at St Xavier's Church in Pune Camp on June 2 at 5.30 pm, followed by an adoration service at St Anthony's Shrine.

Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) president, Mumbai's Cardinal Oswald Gracias has appealed to Catholics in the country to join in the prayers. The global prayer is also being held to celebrate the ongoing Year of Faith and the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council which introduced many reforms in the 2000 year-old church.

The Feast of the Corpus Christi is observed to commemorate Jesus Christ's suffering with bread and wine that symbolise his body and blood.

Cong, NCP go aggressive in ZP, civic polls

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Cong, NCP go aggressive CAMIL PARKHE Tuesday, January 31, 2012 AT 10:58 PM (IST) Tags: Civic polls 2012,   Cong,   NCP The elections to zilla parishad, panchayat samitis and 10 municipal corporations in Maharashtra have will be yet another political battle fought by the five main parties in the state. The polls have come just a couple of months after the municipal councils polls, in which the Congress and the NCP had fared well. The battles-lines are expected to on the same lines as in the municipal polls. That is why the Congress and the NCP are in an aggressive mood while the opposition Shiv Sena and the BJP have been forced on the defensive.   The elections to 27 zilla parishads and 309 panchayat samitis will be held on February 7 and polls to 10 corporations, including Mumbai, Pune, Pimpri Chinchwad and Aurangabad, on February 16. Civic elections are also due in Nagpur, Thane, Nashik, Amravati, Kolhapur and Akola. The main contestants are the two constituents of the Democratic Front, the Congress and the NCP; the saffron alliance of the Shiv Sena and the BJP, which has been reinforced this time by the Republican faction led by Ramdas Athavale; and the comparatively new entrant in the state politics, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena led by Raj Thackeray. All the parties are gearing up for the polls and finding ways to woo the voters.   The crucial polls are being held as the Congress-led ruling front is completing half of its third consecutive term. In such circumstances, the ruling combine often faces the heat of the anti-incumbency wave. But thanks to the acts of commissions and omissions by both the Congress-NCP government and the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance, the municipal council poll verdict indicated that the ruling front faces no such wave. In fact, because of some turbulence in its own camp, it is the saffron alliance which  has been forced to lick its own wounds, leaving it with little strength to attack the ruling front with some effectiveness. The only political party outside the ruling front thoroughly enjoying the present political atmosphere and ready to exploit it for its advantages is the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena. The local self-government poll will serve as a rehearsal for the state polls, scheduled two years later.    The panchayati raj and municipal council poll should have served as an ideal opportunity for the opposition to attack the ruling front on corruption scandals like the Adarsh housing complex in Mumbai and the nine-month imprisonment of Pune's suspended Congress MP, Suresh Kalmadi, in Tihar jail in the Commonwealth Games scam. But most opposition parties are busy setting their own house in order.   Senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde is the party's only mass leader in the state but he has been facing major setbacks in the past couple of years. He has little time to consolidate the party's base. He has been fighting a battle for survival in his own party with party president Nitin Gadkari. After threatening to quit the party and knocking at the door of other parties, Munde decided to stay put in the BJP but not without damaging his credentials. Now, the former deputy chief minister is facing a serious challenge on his home turf of Beed district from his nephew and MLC, Dhananjay Munde, who is openly hobnobbing with the  NCP. Gadkari and other Munde detractors are doing everything to marginalise Munde. So the BJP leaders have no time to train their guns on the ruling party or to give a fight in the panchayati and civic body polls. A wounded Munde is no position to play a vital role in galvanising the BJP and reviving its poll prospects. The  Shiv Sena is fighting a battle to retain its two-decade hold on power in Brihamaumbai Municipal Corporation. It faces a major threat from the combined forces of the Congress and the NCP. This is for the first time the two Congresses have come together in Mumbai civic elections. The presence of the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena in the previous State Assembly polls had helped the Congress-NCP to defeat the saffron alliance in Mumbai and to return to power for the third consecutive term. The ruling front hopes that the Raj Thackeray-led party will play a vital role in dethroning the Shiv Sena. The revolt of the Shiv Sena's Thane MP Anand Paranjape -- the party's only victorious nominee in the Mumbai-Thane belt in the last Lok Sabha polls -- has dealt a severe jolt to the party. It will have repercussions on the civic poll in Thane.     So it is no wonder that the ruling Congress-NCP front hopes to romp home at the hustings without much difficulty. All the opposition parties will really have to really work overtime during the remaining few days to deny a cake-walk for the ruling front, although the ruling front has performed no great wonders to stake claims to uninterrupted power. The opposition has to expose the misdeeds of the government and prove its own credentials. The verdict of the electorate will show who among the ruling group and the opposition plays its role effectively.

Pune, a city of churches

Pune, a city of churches

CAMIL PARKHE

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Saturday, December 24, 2011 AT 06:44 PM (IST)

Tags: Church,   christian,   Christmas,   Pune,   Pimpri-Chinchwad,   city speak,   Camil Parkhe

One of the significant aspects of Pune’s multi-culturalism is the presence of more than 80 cathedrals, churches and chapels in the city itself, and perhaps another fifty more in the district. The oldest ones go back more than 220 years in the history of the city. On Christmas day, tomorrow, these churches will be lit up, giving the city a resplendent glow. Sakàl Times tells the story of these magnificent structures

The presence of Christian soldiers in the Maratha and British armies in Pune necessitated the construction of churches catering to their religious needs, which led to the establishment of some of the oldest churches in the city, in the early and mid-19th century.

 

St Mary’s Church on Solapur Road in Pune Camp, which was built in 1823 for soldiers and officers in the British army, is the oldest church structure in the city. In keeping with the tradition that time, a capsule containing the names of British India’s governor general Warren Hastings, Mumbai governor Mountstuart Elphinstone and other East India Company officials was buried at the church site during the stone-laying ceremony in June, 1821.

The Church of Immaculate Conception or City Church is the oldest Catholic church in the city. The land was gifted by Peshwa Madhavrao II and the first Mass (religious gathering) was held on Christmas day in 1792, and a structure made of mud and mortar was built in 1794. The present structure was constructed only in 1852.

 

St Patrick’s Cathedral has been built on the land gifted by the British government in 1850. While St Paul’s Church, located behind the police commissionerate, was erected in 1867 on the lines of the St Chapelle Church in Paris. The cost of construction came up to Rs 90,000 at that time. The structure, however, suffered heavy damages in a fire on July 5, 1900.

 

The foundation stone of the St Mathew’s Marathi Church on Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Road was laid in 1893. This church catered to the city’s Marathi-speaking population.

 

St Andrew’s Church near the Race Course, which bore the brunt of a major fire in October this year, was built by the Church of Scotland in 1861. The church had a seating capacity of 500 people at the time.

 

Christ Church near Quarter Gate, which was built in 1896, is also one of the oldest churches in the city. A majority of the old Catholic and Protestant churches are in Pune Camp, Wanowrie and Khadki where the British military establishments were located.

 

The Panch Haud Church, Brother Deshpande Memorial Church (Kasba Peth) and St Crispin’s Church near Nal Stop on Karve Road are the only churches in the heart of the city. The Catholic Church’s major religious institutes – the Papal Seminary and the De Nobili College – were started at Ramwadi on Nagar Road six decades ago. A large number of Catholic religious congregations also established their centres near these two institutes. This led to the concentration of the migratory Christian population in Yerawada and Vadgaonsheri on Nagar Road. So, many churches came up in these areas over the last few decades.

 

St Francis Xavier’s Church, which was built in 1973, was the first Catholic church in Pimpri Chinchwad and it catered to the Goan and Tamil populations who had migrated from the neighbouring Ahmednagar and Aurangabad districts to the industrial hub. Subsequently, four more churches were opened in Pimpri-Chinchwad to meet the needs of the growing Christian population.

 

Since the Christian community in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad is multi-lingual, most Catholic churches celebrate the Mass in English, Marathi, Konkani, Tamil as well as Malayalam. A few churches also cater exclusively to the Marathi, Tamil and Malayalam speaking communities in the city.

WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM?

The construction of any church is financed by its members who contribute their own share, while also raising a building fund. The Pune Catholic Diocese offers a share of the construction cost. If the local community undertakes the building of a new church, the Pune diocese offers 50 per cent of the construction cost. The new churches that came up on Nagar Road and in Pimpri-Chinchwad during the last decade were built on this principle.

 

Fr Simon Almeida, who has presently undertaken the construction of a new building for St Francis Xavier’s Church in Chinchwad, says, “It is the responsibility of the local people to build a church for themselves. The priest’s job is to build the community. Therefore, the lay leaders undertake various activities to raise the construction funds.” Sometimes, when local parishioners are unable to raise 50 per cent of the construction cost, the diocese has to bear more than its share of the amount. The diocese receives its funds from monthly collections given by various churches under its jurisdiction.

 

Fr Almedia says that every Catholic church is required to give its donation collections of two Sundays of every month to the Pune diocese. The diocese utilises these funds for various activities. “Besides this, parishioners of other churches are also expected to contribute for the construction of churches in other localities,” he adds.

–Inputs by Camil Parkhe

ROYAL GESTURE

It was Peshwa Madhavrao II who gifted a piece of land for the construction of a church for the Catholic soldiers in the Maratha army. The Catholic soldiers included Goans, British and Portuguese nationals. The Peshwa also contributed a sum for building of the church, which eventually came to be called City Church. Later, when the British came to rule over Pune, they gifted one bigha (three acres and 14 gunthas) land to build the present structure of the church that we see today. The Portuguese government in Goa had offered a substantial subsidy in its construction. The British government had also gifted land and a grant of Rs 2,000 for the construction of the St Patrick’s Chapel, the present cathedral and seat of the Pune diocese. Records show that many Catholic soldiers in the British army donated a full month’s salary too.

 

CHURCHES IN PUNE AND PIMPRI-CHINCHWAD

CATHOLIC CHURCHES

- Church of Immaculate Conception (City Church)            (1792)

- St Ignatius Church, Khadki ( 1833)

- St Patrick’s Cathedral, near Empress Garden (1850)

- The Church of Holy Name, Guruwar Peth   (1885)

- St Xavier’s Church, Pune Camp   (1862)

- St Crispin’s Church, Nal Stop, Karve Road    (1901-02)

- St Joseph’s Church, Ghorpuri           (1959)

- St Teresa’s Church, Guruwar Peth   (1963)

- Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Tadiwala Road (1965)

- St Anthony’s Church, Model Colony (1969)

- St Francis Xavier’s Church, Chinchwad       (1972)

- Our Lady of the Afflicted Church, Pimpri (1978)

- St Anne’s Church, Solapur Bazaar (1983)

- Sacred Heart Church, Yerawada        (1984)

- St Alphonsa Church, Kalewadi, Pimpri (1986)

- Resurrection Sub-Centre, Kalas Gaon      (1987)

- St Francis De Sales, Ahmednagar Road    (1988)

- Mother Teresa Centre, Hadapsar         (1996)

- Holy Cross Church, Dapodi (1998)

- Infant Jesus Church, Nigdi   (1998)

- Holy Trinity Church, New Sangvi  (2000)

- Divine Mercy Church, Vadgaonsheri   (2004)

- Good Shepherd Church (2011)

- Christ The King Church, Vadgaonsheri   (2011)

- St Sebastian’s Chapel, NDA *

- Holy Family Chapel, Lohegaon *

- Wakad Mass Centre, Wakad *

- Holy Redeemer Malankara Catholic Church, Kalewadi *

- St Anthony’s Malankara Catholic Church, Vishrantwadi *

- St Mary’s Malankara Church, Khadki *

- St Mary’s Malankara Catholic Church, Warje, Malewadi *

- St John’s Marthoma Parish, Pune-Mumbai highway, Khadki *

 

PROTESTANT CHURCHES

- St Mary’s Church, Solapur Road, Pune Camp      (1823)

- The Church of Holy Name, Guruwar Peth   (1885)

- Christ Church, Quarter Gate    (1896)

- St Paul’s Church, behind Pune police commissionerate, Pune Camp   (1867)

- St Mathew’s Marathi Church, Dr Ambedkar Road, Pune Camp   (1893)

- Poona Diocesan Council Church of North India, Staveley Road, Pune Camp *

- All Saints Marathi Church, Khadki *

- Bethel Church, Vadgaonsheri *

- Brother Deshpande Memorial Church, Kasba Peth *

- Church of Holy Angel, Rasta Peth *

- CNI Church, Dhanori *

- St Anne Church, Solapur Bazaar *

- St Luke Church, Phule Nagar *

- St Mary Church, Khadki *

- St Paul’s Malayalam Church, Khadki *

- Sutarwadi CNI Church, Pashan *

- United Church of Christ, Pimpri *

- Hindustani Methodist Worship Centre, Khadakwasla *

- Methodist Kannada Church, Khadki *

- Methodist Marathi Church, Yerawada *

- Methodist Marathi Church, Bhosari *

- Methodist Tamil Church, Nigdi *

- Methodist Tamil Church, Khadki *

- Oldham Memorial Methodist Church, East Street *

- Methodist English Church, Khadki *

- St Andrew’s Hindustani Church, near Race Course *

- Vineyard Workers Church, Dapodi *

* Exact year of establishment not available