India, June 13 -- Once an aspirational address, crumbling infrastructure, daily traffic congestion and frequent accidents are now forcing an increasing number of residents to move out of the Gangadham Chowk-Kondhwa Road area in south Pune.

While a construction boom over the last 10 to 15 years brought hundreds of new housing societies and thousands of new homeowners to this area, the residents now complain of narrow, poorly maintained and encroached roads; absence of proper footpaths and streetlights; massive traffic jams during office and school hours; and frequent accidents, the latest having occurred on Wednesday wherein a young woman died after being hit by a speeding heavy vehicle. This breakdown has pushed many residents to take th...