A few days before the serial blasts in the city on August 1, the Disaster Management Cell of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had warned in a report that there was a big terrorism threat in the Ghole Road civic ward, which includes Deccan and JM Road areas. The report had also suggested some guidelines to avoid a terror attack.

As a response to the German Bakery blast of 2010, the Disaster Management Cell prepared the ‘Integrated Ward Level Disaster Management Plan 2012’ for the first time in the city. u00a0Submitted last month, the report identified hazards, vulnerabilities, capacities and deduced the risks as they exist currently for each ward in the city. It gave the overall risk status of the city.