a Pune continues to stagger under the pressures of infrastructure
deadlock
a Pune city as a whole needs
better, wider roads & traffic management, improved water supply and more
hospitals..
Pune does
not need segmented, fractional development. Piecemeal development is exactly
what has been happening all these years anyway. The haphazard development of
Pune has followed the usual course of opportunistic urbanization. Certain areas
receive maximum attention while others are completely neglected.
If
properly formulated and implemented, the Pune City Development Plan (DP) has
the potential to give the benefits of proper urban development to Pune’s real
estate sector, its economy and to its citizens.
The Pune
city as a whole needs better, wider roads and traffic management, improved
water supply and more hospitals, gardens and playgrounds and open areas.
It is not
just some areas being administered to by individual corporators that need to
see change to the whole city needs the changes that will
make life easier for its citizens and contribute towards more rational growth.
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| Anil Pharande, Pune |
The
patchwork improvements that are being promised will not help Pune to develop
scientifically, rationally and beneficially. A closer look at neighbouring
Pimpri-Chinchwad would reveal just how much can be done for a city if its
policy makers adopt a unified & holistic approach to development.
While
Pune continues to stagger under the pressures of infrastructure deadlock, the
Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) is already passing on the
benefits of visionary urban planning to its residents. The planned development
model adopted by the PCNTDA has consistently ensured that real estate growth in
the entire Pimpri Chinchwad belt has taken place in a logical manner. As a
result, infrastructure in the PCMC has become one of the brightest gems in
Maharashtra’s urban development showcase.
All
stakeholders in Pune's real estate sector must insist on the proper &
timely implementation of the Pune Development Plan. In the villages which have
now come under the DP, there has been little or no progress on infrastructure
for more than two decades.
There is
an urgent need for proper roads and other physical infrastructure in these
areas, many of which which have already seen a lot of irrational construction
and illegal projects.
If Pune’s
development Plan is properly streamlined and implemented, all old and new areas
will benefit from improved road networks which will help in the decongestion of
the inner city. It would be a mature approach to ensure the proper formulation
and implementation of the DP in a timely and progress-oriented manner, rather
than looking at the improvement of only certain sections of the city.
About the
Author..!
Mr. Anil
Pharande is Chairman at Pharande Spaces & Vice President t CREDAI
(Pune Metro)
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