Pimpri Chinchwad Police Owes Rs 7.55 Crore to Municipal Corporation for Rental Properties

Pimpri Chinchwad, 8th December 2024: Pimpri Chinchwad Police Commissionerate (PCPC) owes a sum of crores to Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC), as 22 PCMC buildings are used by the police on a rental basis. A total of Rs 7.55 crores is owed by the Police to the PCMC administration. This debt has been unpaid for 19 years, highlighting the inconsistency in timely payments by the Pimpri Chinchwad Police.

With a separate commissionerate for Pimpri Chinchwad operational since 2018, the Commissionerate began in PCMC’s Mahatma Phule School Building in Premlok Park, Chinchwad. Recently, the Home Ministry of Maharashtra announced that the police will receive a dedicated building to manage the administration and commissionerate, and work on it has already begun. However, the rent payments from the police administration to the PCMC remain unsettled.

Along with the Commissionerate, the Pimpri Chinchwad Police have taken various properties and buildings belonging to PCMC on a rental basis for different purposes. For example, the Sangvi Police Station, made up of a group of small shops, belongs to PCMC, as do the Police Quarters in Pimple Gurav and other properties in Bhosari MIDC, Dighi, Mohan Nagar, and Wadmukhwadi.

Since 2005, when the Pimpri Chinchwad area did not have a separate commissionerate and was under the Pune City Police Commissionerate, PCMC has not received any payments for these properties.

The dues include Rs 2.60 crore for the Police Commissionerate building in Premlok Park, Rs 1.91 crore for the Dighi Police Station premises, Rs 1.31 crore for the Traffic Branch in Chinchwad, Rs 60.49 lakh for the Police Headquarters in Nigdi, Rs 35.23 lakh for the Thergaon Police Chowky, Rs 18.56 lakh for the Zone 3 office in Bhosari MIDC, Rs 10.64 lakh for the Sangvi Police Station, and Rs 8.97 lakh for the Crime Branch Unit 3 office in Mohan Nagar. These are all outstanding rental and other payments, totalling Rs 7.55 crore owed to PCMC.

Mukesh Kolap, Assistant Commissioner in charge of the Land and Estates Department at PCMC, said, “We are constantly in correspondence with the Pimpri Chinchwad Police Commissionerate as they owe us Rs 7.55 crore. The agreements for these properties are being finalized. An agreement for one has already been reached. Once an agreement is reached for each property, efforts to recover the money will begin.”