PUNE: The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) has urged the state government to take up the issue of no-development zone around the Dehu Ammunition Depot with the defence ministry. The work of the slum rehabilitation project in sector 22 has been stopped as the area under the no-development zone is yet to be demarcated clearly.

Municipal commissioner Shrikar Pardeshi said, "The no-development zone affects large parts of Pimpri-Chinchwad city. The areas in the municipal jurisdiction, along with the Talawade IT Park, also come in the areas affected by the zone. Therefore, we have requested the chief minister to follow up issue with the defence ministry. We have sent a written letter in this regard to the state government."

The PCMC is implementing a slum rehabilitation project under the JNNURM in sector 22 of Nigdi, which is close to the Dehu Road cantonment limits. Sector 26 comes under the development control of the Pimpri Chinchwad New Township Development Authority.

The municipal corporation has plans to construct 11,760 tenements, of which 1,000 tenements have already been constructed.

Shiv Sena corporator Seema Savale had filed a petition in the high court against the PCMC saying that the corporation has violated the no development rules. The high court has directed the collector to file a compliance report. The next hearing in the case will be in mid-September.

Speaking to TOI, Yogesh Mhase, chief executive officer, PCNTDA, said: "We do not know exactly how much area of our limits is affected by the no development zone. We have prepared a tentative map of the areas in our limits that are expected to be affected. We have temporarily stopped giving building permissions to new constructions in the areas that are affected by the no development zone, as per the tentative map."