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Maharashtra Sets Up High-Level Panel To Fix Chakan Road and Traffic Failures

The move aims to halt industrial relocations by fast-tracking repairs, approvals, planning within a 10-month deadline.

Overview

  • A Government Resolution issued on August 14 created a committee led by Pune District Collector Jitendra Dudi with Pimpri‑Chinchwad Police Commissioner Vinoy Kumar Choubey as co‑chair to prepare an integrated road and traffic master plan for Chakan.
  • The GR also established an Industry Grievance Redressal Cell at the Pune collectorate to fast‑track pending approvals and handle unresolved industry complaints on a time‑bound basis.
  • Officials ordered immediate technical fixes such as pothole filling, pre‑cast road sections and geo‑polymer patching for monsoon repairs while identifying longer term widening, service roads and junction works.
  • Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Industries Minister Uday Samant pressed 14 departments to coordinate, with MIDC committing land for civic utilities and MSETCL planning a new transformer by August 31 to ease power shortfalls.
  • The package responds to warnings from industrialists that about 20 companies employing roughly 2,000 people were weighing relocation and to opposition pressure over Maharashtra’s industrial outflows, and it sets a 10‑month target for planning through implementation.