CREDAI Pune Metro Asks State to Keep PMRDA as Planning Authority for Township Projects in 23 Merged Villages
CREDAI Pune Metro has written to Maharashtra’s Urban Development Department urging the state government to retain PMRDA as the planning authority for integrated township projects in the 23 villages merged into PMC limits, following the state’s February 12, 2026 decision to appoint PMC as the planning authority for these villages. CREDAI president argued that the change could significantly delay approvals for ongoing township projects where PMRDA has already approved revised master layouts and developers have paid required premiums with some projects falling entirely within PMC limits and others spanning both PMC and PMRDA jurisdictions. CREDAI also cited PMC’s significantly larger backlog of pending building permission and layout approval proposals compared to PMRDA, saying longer waiting periods at PMC could disrupt project completion timelines that are mandated under integrated township regulations. The association requested that under the provision allowing the state to designate a single planning authority when a project falls within multiple jurisdictions, PMRDA be designated for all integrated township projects in the 23 villages.
The association argued that allowing PMRDA to continue handling these projects would ensure regulatory continuity since the authority has already processed earlier stages of approvals and cited the availability of a Director of Town Planning at PMRDA as an added advantage for resolving technical planning issues efficiently. Development work on several projects has already progressed substantially making a mid-project switch of planning authorities a particularly disruptive prospect for developers, homebuyers and project timelines. The state Urban Development Department has sought PMC’s opinion on CREDAI’s proposal with the civic body’s response expected to play a key role in the government’s final decision. For developers and homebuyers with projects straddling the PMC-PMRDA boundary in the 23 merged villages, the planning authority question is not an administrative technicality but a direct determinant of when approvals arrive and when homes get delivered.
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