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PMC in the dark as private developer excavates Taljai hill

Civic body officials claim no development plans approved for eco-sensitive area, but activists allege four excavators have been levelling hill contours since past month and debris has accumulated to almost 35 feet

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Ten years after the Pune Municipal Corporation annulled plans to create an amusement park and tunnel at the Taljai hills near Parvati at Sahakarnagar after facing opposition from environmental bodies, excavation work restarted last month where a part of the hill was excavated and leveled to make way for a road. PMC officials are unaware of the activity on the hill, and work according to activists, has been going on for the past month.


Going unnoticed: Excavation work continues on part of Taljai hill behind Damodar Nagar, though officials of the Pune Municipal Corporation claim that no such approval has been given

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