PUNE: Urban transport reforms in the city have largely remained incomplete. The Union Urban Development ministry while sanctioning grants under JNNURM for all municipal corporations in the state for purchasing public transport buses had directed the state government and the municipal corporations to implement various urban transport reforms.

Some of the important reforms included formation of the Unified Metropolitan Transport Authority (UMTA) at the city level, creation of a dedicated urban transport fund, having an advertisement policy for funding public transport, creating dedicated lanes for public transport, implementing parking policy to discourage use of personal vehicles and waiver of various state taxes and duties on public transport.

While the UMTA is yet to be formed, the municipal corporations are still to come out with details on the policies about creation of dedicated urban transport fund, advertisement and parking policy.

At a review meeting held in July, the state government officials had said that the PMPML would function as a special purpose vehicle for operation of buses. The officials had also said that street tax would be added into the dedicated urban transport fund in the state. At the review meeting, the UD officials had observed the implemenation of urban transport reforms in various cities receiving grants for purchase of buses has been very poor.