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Tenders for Pune City Centre will be floated again

The civic body envisions the development as an iconic one in comparison with the existing city centre at Houston in USA or Mumbai’s Mindspace Complex and Bandra Kurla Complex.

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Deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar said on Monday that tenders for the City Centre project would be floated afresh. He was speaking during the inauguration of a vegetable market at Ajmera Colony.

Pawar said the floating of the tenders will benefit the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) since the property prices are increasing constantly. “If a 20-acre plot of Hindustan Antibiotics Ltd (HAL) can be sold for more than Rs100 crore, I believe that the 35-acre plot earmarked for City Centre project will fetch an attractive price,’’ he said.

Stating that the project would be set up at any cost, he added that it would change the face of the township.

The PCMC has plans to construct a central business district (CBD) or popularly known as City Centre in Chinchwad near the Auto Cluster, off the Pune-Mumbai highway, on public-private partnership (PPP) basis.

The civic body envisions the development as an iconic one in comparison with the existing city centre at Mumbai’s Mindspace Complex and Bandra-Kurla Complex.

The civic body had twice invited tenders and although the final bidders were identified during the second tender, the opposition parties opposed the process and approached the state government six months ago demanding intervention. The project was stalled later.

However, ruling party leaders met Pawar recently, who instructed them to float the tender again.

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