Pune road projects: PMC seeks land clearance for HCMTR, inner ring road

The Pune Municipal Corporation is preparing land requirement proposals for two major road projects — the proposed High Capacity Mass Transit Route (HCMTR) and the inner ring road — ahead of a coordination meeting with senior officials from the Railways and the Ministry of Defence next week.

The proposed HCMTR is a 24-metre-wide elevated inner ring road stretching roughly 43 km through various central city neighbourhoods.

The proposed inner ring road will be 65 metres wide and cover 83 km, primarily through peripheral areas of Pune.

The meeting is expected to focus on the handover of land parcels required for the two projects.

PMC has deployed dedicated teams to speed up preliminary land requirement proposals. About 22 hectares of government, forest and defence land needs to be cleared for the HCMTR loop alone.

“We are proactively pushing these discussions with central govt agencies to avoid bureaucratic hurdles or delays in taking possession of these critical land parcels,” a senior Pune Municipal Corporation official said.

PMC also met Maha Metro on Friday to coordinate the proposed Metro extension with the HCMTR.

The two proposed transport corridors cross at approximately eight city intersections, requiring structural coordination. Along Sinhagad Road, the two projects are planned to share a common stretch.

“We reviewed the overlapping alignments extensively with metro engineers,” a PMC official said. “Since both transport grids are elevated, we have agreed to jointly design the underlying viaducts and support pillars to save space, though actual construction and project execution will be handled independently. We are currently auditing the rest of the city map to identify any other potential points of intersection.”

According to Maha Metro officials, full geometric configurations for all newly proposed corridors have been presented to PMC.

Work is currently under way to finalise the detailed project reports for the upcoming mass transit routes.

The latest land-related discussions are therefore focused on preparing the clearances and requirements needed before the proposed road projects can move ahead.