India, Sept. 12 -- While the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) received 5,922 objections to the draft ward structure, only 828 citizens turned up at the hearing that took place at Balgandharva Auditorium on Thursday and Friday.

The state government's representative and additional chief secretary of general administration V Radha conducted the hearing and listened to objections during the two-day hearing that concluded on Friday. Pune municipal commissioner Naval Kishore Ram, additional municipal commissioner Omprakash Diwate, deputy commissioner of election cell Prasad Katkar were present.

Radha and Ram said, "We will soon submit the report."

According to officials, the highest objections of 2,137 were received for ward number 34 and on...