Pune Ring Road snippets

Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the Pune Ring Road project has been delayed because of land acquisition problems, but now that the government has formulated a new TDR policy , private land acquisition would be easier. A huge swathe of defence land would have to be acquired for the ring road project, he added.
In a query in the state legislative assembly , Congress legislator Anantrao Gadgil had asked whether the state government had cancelled the ring road proposal. Gadgil had said only 21% land for the ring road was under the Pune Municipal Corporation, and a survey of only 32 km had been completed. About 28% land is still with various government departments, he had said. Nearly 10 lakh vehicles will use the ring road and it will reduce traffic congestion and accidents, he had added.
In his reply, Fadnavis said the proposed ring road had not been cancelled, but its alignment had been changed because of the delays in land acquisition. Driven by the need to look for traffic solutions, a decision to have a ring road was taken in 2007. About 48 hectares of government land would have to be acquired, while 25 hectares of private land would be needed. The new land acquisition act, he said, would make it easier to acquire land. The government has also come up with the new floating TDR policy by which acquisition would be easier, he said.
The proposed road will be constructed by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) on a public-private partnership on a design, build, finance, operate and transfer (DBFOT) basis. The corporation had initiated the process for consultancy to prepare a techno-economic feasibility report, as well as a detailed project report and plans to cater to the current and the future needs.
The ring road would be integrated with the present road network and connected to the Mumbai-Pune, Solapur, Satara, Ahmednagar and Nashik highways. MSRDC officials said a large volume of heavy vehicular traffic from the highways passes through the city's roads and the ring road will ease traffic congestion and reduce road acci dents.
In May 2012, the corporation, in its presentation to the state government, had estimated the cost at Rs 10,408 crore which included construction cost of Rs.7,560 crore and land acquisition cost of Rs.2,848 crore.
Last January , a cabinet sub-committee for infrastructure headed by former chief minister Prithviraj Chavan had approved the proposal.