Pune: Land Acquisition Finalised Of Five Properties For Service Road In Chandani Chowk

Pune, 17th September 2022: The District Collector’s office has announced the verdicts for the land acquisition of five properties at Bavdhan in Mulshi taluka for the service road as part of the measures on the traffic congestion at Chandani Chowk on National Highway No. 4 and the possession of these lands will be taken on Monday.

The administration is taking swift action to solve the traffic jam problem in Chandani Chowk. As a part of it, Deputy Collector Land Acquisition (Coordination) Praveen Salunkhe and Special Land Acquisition Officer (No.16) D D Kale under the guidance of Collector Dr Rajesh Deshmukh took necessary action and completed the process within 20 days.

Chief Minister Eknath Shinde recently visited the Chandani Chowk area and directed the administration to take speedy measures to resolve the traffic jam. After that, the Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari held a meeting of all the relevant agencies on September 2 and directed to immediately acquire the remaining land required for the multi-storied flyover project to be constructed at this intersection as well as the adjacent service road.

At that time the Collector Dr Rajesh Deshmukh had assured to complete the rest of the land acquisition process within 1 month. This land acquisition will speed up the Chandni Chowk flyover project.

Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to negotiate the land acquisition of 5 acres for the widening of the service road approved in the development plan adjacent to the proposed flyover in Chandani Chowk. However, due to some court cases, it was decided to do the said land acquisition through the Collector’s Office.

Accordingly, in March 2022, the collector’s office issued a preliminary notification for the same. Accordingly, on Friday (September 16), the awards of 5 areas, a total of 3,215 sq.m were announced.

In this, a compensation of Rs 11 crore 42 lakh will be given immediately. These proceeds will be seized on Monday (September 19) and transferred to the Municipal Corporation and immediately transferred from the Municipal Corporation to the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI).

The final selection of land acquisition of 48 properties was announced in December 2020 for this project. Accordingly, 6 hectares of the land in January 2021 were transferred to the Pune Municipal Corporation after taking possession and then to the NHAI. Since the land acquisition of 5 properties has been completed, the Collector’s office has informed that there is no land acquisition process for the project in Chandani Chowk.