Gardens, Playgrounds and Schools Were Planned Here, Instead Businesses Ran on 25 Acres of PCMC Land for Years
Around 25 acres of land reserved for public amenities including gardens, playgrounds, schools and dispensaries and owned by Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation PCMC have been found encroached upon across 60 plots totalling 1,04,964 square metres, with illegal commercial structures, sheds and parking operations reportedly running on the properties for years. The survey was ordered by the standing committee chairman and conducted by the land and estate department which identified 60 plots across 11 locations with Moshi accounting for the highest number at 18 plots followed by Sangvi with 13, Bopkhel with 10 and Ravet with 8 plots while Bhosari, Chikhali, Pimple Gurav, Akurdi, Kiwale and Talawade account for the remaining encroachments. The land and estate department has forwarded details to the encroachment department for action but concerns remain over whether the proposal will lead to actual evictions or remain confined to official correspondence. Allegations have surfaced that officials in town planning, land and estate and encroachment departments ignored the unauthorised occupation for years with suspicions of political patronage for some encroachers also being raised.
The scale and duration of the encroachments has drawn sharp criticism given that PCMC regularly takes swift action against smaller unauthorised structures while allowing large commercial operations to run undisturbed on 25 acres of public land meant for community amenities. Additional municipal commissioner said the encroachment department has received the details and that action is proposed, warning citizens against encroaching on civic or reserved land. For Pimpri Chinchwad residents living in areas where the promised gardens, playgrounds and dispensaries were never built because the land was quietly occupied by commercial interests, the question being asked loudly is not just whether the encroachments will be cleared but why it took a standing committee chairman’s direction to even conduct a survey of land that the civic body itself owns.
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