India, May 22 -- The Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation has officially scrapped the decision to set up a garbage depot in Punalwale. The civic body recently published the development plan for Pimpri-Chinchwad, wherein it has dropped the garbage depot from the same, the officials said.

In 2008, the PCMC had reserved 22 hectares of land at survey number 24 in Punawale. The civic body, in exchange for the land, had paid Rs.3.5 crore to the forest department and promised to provide alternative land elsewhere. However, with no efforts from PCMC to acquire this land in the past 15 years, several residential projects, schools, and colleges have come up in the vicinity of the proposed project.

After the civic body started movements in 2023 ...