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Another 49.99 lakh files were added during the six months thereafter. As many as 7,222 offices and 23,092 workers were part of this initiative, which commenced on May 1, last year.“Before May, the pendency was 6.98 lakh files. “Earlier, these files used to just lie on the officers’ table and citizens had to keep making rounds to the offices to get them cleared. Pune: As many as 55.28 lakh files were cleared in the Pune division in the past nine months under the ‘zero pendency’ model.Sharing this information with TOI, Pune divisional commissioner Chandrakant Dalvi said on Wednesday that the pending 1.69 lakh files will be cleared by February-end.In May last year, Dalvi had set a ‘zero pendency’ target for the division, which includes Pune, Satara, Sangli, Solapur and Kolhapur districts.Of the 1.68 crore files scrutinized during the period, 98.53 lakh were preserved while 69.76 lakh were destroyed as per the norms, Dalvi said. While at the taluka level a time frame of one month is given, it is two months for sthe sub-divisional officer, three months for the district and two months for the zilla parishad..