Ring road for Pune and Pimpri: CM

Pune, June 12: CHIEF Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh has suggested a ring road to solve the traffic problems in Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad. In a meeting on Tuesday, district guardian minister Ajit Pawar said the ring road should be 120-meter wide with service roads. The land for the road would be acquired by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC).

Public Works Department officials said the road would cost Rs 600 crore and should be a Build-Operate-Transfer project. Divisional Commissioner Nitin Kareer said private developers had built such roads in Ahmedabad and Bangalore. Deshmukh then directed officials to send a proposal to the State government.
In another development, the Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) would also be permitted to hire 162 Euro III buses from private contractors.

The problems in the development plan (DP) of the 23 fringe villages merged in the municipal limits, would be solved within a month, Deshmukh added.

Municipal commissioner Pravinsinh Pardeshi demanded that the rule which says that 70 per cent of the slum dwellers should give their consent in a slum rehabilitation authority (SRA) scheme should not be mandatory as they were being rehabilitated on government land.

PMC also put forth demands like allowing buildings up to a height of 100 meters in municipal limits, changes in the DP to develop the reservations in gaothan areas, discount in property tax to those who paid in advance and granting an FSI of two to settlements of the flood affected.

Source:PUNE Newsline