PMC kick-starts 4-km long riverfront realty project

The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has kick-started the groundwork for designing a four-km long pilot project from Bund Garden to Sangamwadi Bridge of riverfront. The land estate and management department of PMC has initiated the process to send notices to private and government bodies to acquire land for the same. On the line of the Sabarmati riverfront development project of Gujarat, PMC had given a green signal to develop the Mula-Mutha river in 2015. PMC has set a target of ten years to complete the project with an estimated cost of ₹2,619 crore. The project includes creating a network of gardens, open spaces, public promenades that will preserve the natural environment and turn Pune rivers into important assets of the city. Mangesh Dighe, environment officer of PMC, informed that the local body is working on three different stretches such as Kharadi, Aundh and Bund Garden to Sangamwadi bridge. In the Bund Garden to Sangamwadi stretch, it will have to acquire the least amount of land from private and government bodies as the riverbed is wide enough. It will take about a month to complete the process.