Pune, 30 March 2026: In a significant step to address Pune’s growing traffic congestion, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has made it mandatory for developers to hand over land reserved for road widening before the ‘Plinth verification’ stage.
The move is expected to ensure that roads are widened on the ground and not just reflected in official plans.
The issue has persisted for years, where developers secure building permissions by marking road-widening areas in plans but delay handing over that land to the civic body. As a result, even after construction is completed, roads remain narrow, leading to traffic bottlenecks and inconvenience for citizens.
Under development norms such as the Unified Development Control and Promotion Regulations (UDCPR), building proposals are approved after deducting land reserved for road expansion. However, in many cases, this land is not transferred to PMC in time, preventing continuous and full-width road development.
City Engineer Aniruddha Pawaskar has now made it clear that developers must transfer the affected land at the early stage itself. “Developers will have to hand over the land reserved for road widening before the Jote verification process. Failure to do so will invite strict action,” he said.
The decision comes after PMC received numerous complaints about incomplete road widths and increasing congestion across the city. With this rule in place, the civic body expects faster execution of road-widening projects, smoother traffic flow, and better infrastructure for residents.
The impact will be most visible in newly developing areas, ongoing construction projects, and regions already marked under development plans. Authorities believe the move will help ensure that Pune’s roads are not just wide on paper but in reality as well.
