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.”