Overview

• Pawar directed officials to immediately move 200 households who have agreed to relocate from around the Savitribai Phule Memorial in Pune’s Ganj Peth neighbourhood.
• A phased plan will guide the staggered relocation of the remaining roughly 800 residents to alternate accommodations.
• The state government has sanctioned Rs 200 crore for land acquisition and related works to expand the memorial and adjacent Mahatma Phule Wada.
• Authorities were instructed to initiate the land acquisition process within 15 days to accelerate conservation and expansion efforts.
• Minister Chhagan Bhujbal supported shifting willing families first to free land parcels progressively for the redevelopment project.