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PMRDA Eyes 15 Townships In 18 Months
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Pune:

The outskirts of Pune are set for a makeover with the PMRDA willing to lay
out 15 more town planning schemes within the next 18 months along the first
32km stretch of the proposed 128km Ring Road.

Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) commissioner

Kiran Gitte said following the approval to the Mhalunge town planning
scheme, a meeting was held with villagers in Manjri Budruk villagers. “Two
townships will come up in the area — one in Budruk and another in Manjri
Khurd. Talks will be started with other villages for similar townships along the
Satara road-Nagar road stretch,” he said.

“PMRDA will come up with 15 TP schemes be spread over 250 hectares. We

have the manpower, but have to generate funds for the infrastructure through
land monetisation,” Gitte said. The authority would have taken five more
villages, but some of them have been included in the Pune Municipal
Corporation’s (PMC) jurisdiction.

The project would be based on the Ahmedabad model that saw development
of 78 townships in 10 years. Gitte said the entire ring road would see nearly 50
such townships during the same period.

Among the villages considered for the townships in the first phase are
Manjri Khurd, Wadachi Wadi, Avatalewadi, Holkarwadi, Wadki, Manjri
Khurd and Manjri Budruk, Phursungi , Urali Devachi, Yevalewadi, Pissoli and
Handewadi. Some of these villages will have two townships.

Gitte hoped that the township model here could be put on the fast track, as
the real estate sector in Pune was better than the one in Ahmedabad. The
township model will help these villages get a complete new look with land
owners standing to get 50% of the plots in the same areas.

However, the roll-out of the project has its challenges as well. The biggest of
the challenges is communication within the villages. To tide over this, PMRDA
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will have to raise funds through municipal bonds, loans and land monetisation
for readying the infrastructure.

The schemes have been proposed to make the 128-km Ring Road project
self-sustainable with planned development along it. The new schemes will be
built 500m from the proposed road.

The town planning and the Ring Road projects will be developed
simultaneously and they are a part of the same scheme.

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