Civic activists said in a statement on behalf of Green Pune Movement they were surprised at Bhaskar Jadhav’s estimate.
The Green Pune Movement (GPM), which is consistently pursuing the proposed bio-diversity park (BDP) in the city, has said that the minister of state for urban development, Bhaskar Jadhav, had been misinformed by bureaucrats in the department.
Jadhav had said that Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) would be required to fork out Rs3,000 crore to acquire privately-owned lands for the BDP.
Civic activists Vandana Chavan, Aneeta Gokhale-Benninger and Satish Khot said in a statement on behalf of GPM they were surprised at Jadhav’s estimate, adding that the figure of Rs3,000 crore is baseless. “It appears that the minister has been misinformed by the secretary of the urban development department,” the added.
They said that on February 19, chief minister (CM) Prithviraj Chavan held a meeting with various stakeholders in the BDP (including political leaders, PMC officials, NGOs, corporates and others), in which he instructed the Pune divisional commissioner to submit a report detailing the cost involved in acquiring the BDP land.
The PMC pegged the cost at Rs974 crore.
The activists recalled that the CM had agreed to follow a pattern for funding similar projects carried out under the Jawaharlal Nehru national urban renewal mission (JNNURM): central government 50%, PMC 30% and state government 20%. They said that the funding pattern was proposed by the then Union environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, in an earlier meeting held in New Delhi with the late BG Deshmukh, Vandana Chavan, Khot and Benninger.
Therefore, based on this funding pattern, the PMC’s share is expected to be about Rs300 crore and not Rs3,000 crore for acquiring the lands for BDP.
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