International Standard Roads Planned for Pune Merged Villages in 2026 Fiscal Year
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has introduced a transformative policy linking building permissions directly to road-widening land acquisition to eliminate chronic infrastructure delays. Under this new mandate, developers are required to submit a formal proposal to hand over any land affected by road widening within 15 days of applying for construction permits. Most significantly, the physical possession of this land must be transferred to the civic body before a new structure reaches the "plinth level," ensuring that road expansion happens simultaneously with private development. This shift addresses a long-standing bottleneck where completed buildings often sat behind narrow, congested roads due to years of litigation and stalled land surrenders.
This policy comes as Pune faces a critical infrastructure deficit, with only 9% of its land area dedicated to roads well below the urban planning benchmark of 15%. Currently, a staggering 80% of the city's traffic is concentrated on just 270 km of arterial roads, putting immense pressure on high-traffic corridors. For the 2026-27 financial year, the PMC has set an ambitious target to expand the road network by 10.75%, backed by a ₹5 crore allocation to upgrade 30 major junctions. Additionally, the civic body plans to develop at least one road of international standard in each of the 32 merged villages, signaling a major push toward modernizing the city’s peripheral connectivity.
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