were located in pimaple saudagar and rahatni areas i agreed to their proposal on the condition that people coming to vote at the centre do not park their vehicles on the societys premises polling booths were also set up in dwarkadhish shubhashree woods roseland rajveer palace and planet millennium housing societies in pimpale saudagar however even this initiative failed to bring voters out of their homes in some societies in upmarket areas like aundh and pashan sarkar said he was approached by the civic bodys election office for setting up the booth at his society close proximity to their homes cleaner and familiar surroundings and time saved on travelling to polling booths elsewhere in the locality were the advantages this should continue in future elections as it will increase voting percentage kumbhar said the setting up of polling booths in the housing societies has immensely helped local residents the polling booths at housing societies are at cleaner places mostly in club houses which makes voting a pleasant experience a person helping out voters find their names in the list in pashan said we are seeing a low turnout in societies as voters are complaining that they have to go to some other place despite their society have a polling booth earlier we had to travel to a school located in aundhgaon with more and more companies and marts coming up we have to face regular traffic snarls there was a long queue at the polling booth located in rajveer palace club in pimpale saudagar in the afternoon residents of aundh sitaram m b and his wife surekha k s who cast their votes at tangent mall said we stay opposite the mall and so it was very convenient to drop in for voting anil kumbhar chairman siddhivinayak ginger had come to vote at the polling booth in kunal icon in pimpale saudagar along with his wife alka and daughter shalakha the arrangement was convenient for homemakers the most pune the remaining were from pashan sus road panchavati and sutarwadi areas wakad resident manoj patil who had to go to pimpri chinchwad municipal corporationrun primary school said it is weird that i had to travel four km from my home to cast a vote that too when my society had a polling booth uday tekale assistant commissioner and chief of election department said the election department had set up 27 polling booths in 24 housing societies in the city in pashan a polling official at krishnakamal society said out of the total 415 voters listed here only two voters are from this society and the remaining are from outside jayant salvekar a resident of navsahyadri society in karvenagar hoped that the new elected body would be more peoplecentric