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(Representational image)In a bid to keep Pune streets clean, the city civic body has started punishing people spitting on roads by making them clean the spit, besides levying a fine on offenders, an official said Sunday. (Representational image) In the past, the civic body used to observe the Anti-Spitting Day every Wednesday, but it got discontinued. In the past, the civic body used to observe the Anti-Spitting Day every Wednesday, but it got discontinued. The latest drive is one of the initiatives taken by the civic body ahead of the Swachh Survekshan (survey) 2019,” he said. The decision was taken after authorities found that only monetary fine was not adequate to check the menace of spitting, Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) solid waste management department chief Dnyaneshwar Molak said..