India, Oct. 18 -- The additional town planning officer on Friday published the draft development plan for merging nine villages and has called for suggestions and objections on it within the next 60 days.

Prashant Waghmare, engineer, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), said, "Earlier, the state government had merged 11 villages in the PMC limits, and later, two villages, Uruli Devachi and Phursungi, were excluded.These villages were merged on October 4, 2017. The intention to prepare the development plan was published in June 2018, but as it did not get published within the due time, the state government appointed the town planning officer Abhijit Ketkar to prepare it."

Now the draft development plan is for Lohegaon, Mundhwa, Hadapsar, Sa...