India, April 3 -- In a major decision, the Maharashtra state government has scrapped the Draft Development Plan (DP) prepared by the Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA), affecting merged villages spanning over 6,000 square meters. The move effectively nullifies proposed land reservations for public amenities and infrastructure, setting back the development of these areas. Now, PMRDA will have to restart the DP process, which has already taken eight years.

With the cancellation of the DP, questions have been raised over infrastructure development in these merged villages, which were initially under PMRDA before being brought under the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). Despite their merger, these areas have seen little p...