Addressing a joint meeting of government officials, including the police and State Excise officials, Navalkar asked the District Collector to chalk out an action plan immediately against those hotels, pubs, discotheques, pubs, pool centres and bars where college students were normally found till late night or even early morning.

Navalkar has asked Gautam to take the action in Pune city and district as well since there were a large number of such centres and hotels at the outskirts of the city, which fall in the jurisdiction of the Pune rural police.

According to the officials, the Guardian Minister expressed concern over the increasing trend among the students of staying at such centres till latenight. Navalkar reportedly said that such centres had become nuisance for the local residents "because of activities being conducted there".Stating that such centres had caused a sense of insecurity among the citizens, Navalkar said several students, under the influence of liquor, either meet fatal or other serious road accidents.

Sources said the Minister was particularly pointing towards those non-Maharashtrian students, who have come in the city for education. In the beginning, Navalkar has decided to take stern action against those centres, who were serving liquor or other materials to the minor students.

According to the legal provisions, serving liquor to a minor is a cognisable offence. The sources said the Minister was not keen on taking action against the students while launching the drive. The District Collector is expected to call a joint meeting of State Excise, city and rural police officials this week.

Apart from the District Collector, the meeting was attended by zilla parishad chiefexecutive officer V Radha, Deepak Paigude, Girish Bapat, Dilip Kamble, Balasaheb Dangat, Gajanan Babar, Rooplekhaa Dhore, all MLAs and Prakash Deole, MLC.

On Friday, Navalkar held a meeting with Police Commissioner K K Kashyap, Municipal Commissioner Girish Pradhan and all the elected representatives. During the meeting, he issued instructions to continue the drive against the illegal constructions and also to curb increasing criminal activities in the city.

Navalkar asked the Municipal Commissioner to raze the illegal constructions on 13 major roads in the city. He has specifically called for action against those hotels, being run in the parking spaces. Besides, he had asked Pradhan to pull down those structures of the hotels which were earlier demolished in the current special drive against the illegal constructions.

Navalkar had also asked to conduct a special survey of the starred hotels in the city to confirm whether some illegal structures, violating the development controls rules had come upthere. Navalkar had asked the Municipal Commissioner to take action against these hotels after completing the required legal course of action.

Navalkar has already announced that he would conduct a fortnightly meeting of all the Government officials and elected representatives to take follow up of the earlier decisions.