India, Dec. 14 -- The Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority will prepare a Structure Plan instead of a Development Plan (DP) after the state government scrapped the earlier proposal. Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis approved the decision at a Thursday PMRDA meeting in Nagpur.

The authority had proposed a Development Plan in 2017 for Pune Pimpri Chinchwad and nearly 600 surrounding villages. After the draft plan was published on August 2 2021, around 67,000 citizens raised objections. The revised plan was submitted to the state government in May 2024, but the process stalled due to legal disputes. The government cancelled the plan about six months ago.

The state has now allowed PMRDA to prepare a Structure Plan before drafting a...