81,250 sq ft Demolished in Five Years While Thousands More Illegal Structures Sit in Pune’s Flood Zones Unchallenged
PMC has demolished only around 81,250 square feet of illegal constructions within the blue flood lines of Pune’s rivers in the last five years with just 69 notices issued covering an unauthorised area of approximately 85,250 square feet, according to official data revealed in a written reply to elected members. Action against nullah encroachments has been even more minimal with only 23 notices issued in five years across the city following which around 95,000 square feet of encroachments were removed. Activists from Surajya Sangharsh Samiti alleged that civic officials are purposely ignoring many constructions due to a nexus between officials, local politicians and contractors that actively promotes illegal construction in restricted flood zones. A Satara Road resident pointed to the flash flooding in Ambil Odha just a few years ago as direct evidence of what nullah encroachments cause and demanded PMC treat removal as a priority before another disaster strikes.
PMC city engineer said regular monitoring is carried out using new technology including high-resolution satellite imagery combined with GIS data to detect unauthorised changes in flood line properties. A senior civic official added that PMC is developing 3D Digital Twin models using Geo-AI and spatial analytics to create virtual simulations of Pune’s flood-prone nullahs and river corridors for systematic real-time encroachment monitoring. However activists said the gap between the technology being claimed and the ground reality of just 23 nullah notices and 69 flood line notices in five years is too wide to be explained by anything other than deliberate inaction. Blue flood lines are demarcated based on maximum flood discharge in 25 years with the prohibited zone defined as the area between the two blue lines on either side of rivers like the Mula-Mutha and the restricted zone covering the area between the blue and red lines.
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