Overview
- Traffic diversions and road closures are in force for 24 hours on December 31 and January 1 across the Pune–Ahilyanagar Highway and connecting routes, with exemptions for vehicles carrying visitors, emergency services and essential services.
- About 9,000 personnel are on duty across Pune city, Pune rural and Pimpri Chinchwad with State Reserve Police Force companies, home guards, bomb squads, quick response teams, drones, CCTV with face recognition, watch towers and satellite phones, alongside warnings against objectionable online posts.
- PMPML is operating hundreds of free shuttle buses on December 31 and January 1 from the Lonikand and Shirur divisions to ferry visitors from temporary parking areas to Perne, with additional paid services from six major terminals.
- Key restrictions include a full closure of the Shikrapur–Lonikand stretch of the Pune–Ahilyanagar highway and a heavy-vehicle ban on Markal bridge, with detailed diversion routes issued for heavy and light vehicles approaching from Mumbai, Solapur and Ahilyanagar sides.
- The state has temporary possession of the Jaystambh land from December 22 to January 5 under a Bombay High Court order while a land-ownership case proceeds, as the gathering draws heightened political attention during the civic poll campaign.