Overview
- The Pune Municipal Corporation formally reactivated the High Capacity Mass Transit Route by floating tenders on Tuesday to appoint a principal technical consultant and a land‑acquisition consultant and has begun drone surveys to update land records.
- Officials are targeting issuance of construction tenders by October 2026 after an updated technical review that the PMC expects to complete within about three months.
- PMC reported an initial funding commitment of Rs 3,000 crore and said roughly 51% of the land needed under the original alignment is already available with the state agreeing in principle to transfer government land at no or nominal cost.
- The alignment has been modified at 12 locations to reduce private land acquisition, but fresh environmental assessments, statutory clearances and coordination where the route crosses Pune Metro lines remain to be completed and are key implementation risks.
- The redesigned plan calls for a 24‑metre, six‑lane elevated corridor with a central Bus Rapid Transit System to permit uninterrupted bus and emergency movement at about 50 km/h, and PMC documents propose a phased build that aims to finish the ring within roughly three years once work starts.