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Policy watch · Pune · reported 27 November 2025
The Pune Municipal Corporation issued tenders for pay-and-park on six roads: JM Road–Gokhale Road, FC Road, Laxmi Road, Balewadi High Street, Viman Nagar Road and Bibwewadi Main Road, at ₹20 an hour for cars and ₹4 for two-wheelers, 14 hours a day. Reported capacity figures in the article did not add up consistently across roads.
Why it matters: this was the first concrete step on a policy approved in 2018.
Source: Construction World
Policy watch is WA Foundation's summary of public reporting on parking, mobility and urban land. We link to the original reports; figures are as reported by them.
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