1. Is the PMC a seat of bad governance?
The Devnadi Case Study

2. World Environment Day 2013: Pune Mirror, June 5th 2013

3. Flood Control Plan 2013, Pune Municipal Corporation

4. • The PMC has no records of any floods in any Nalla
• In their own admission flooding is due to release in excess of 45,000 cusecs
from the Khadakwasla Dam by irrigation department
No Nallas in Flood Locations

5. Typical IDF curve

6. PMC’s IDF curve

7. • 23 Basins in Pune with 360 Km nallas on natural fresh water streams said to
cause floods
• Freshwater streams labeled as “stormwater drains”
• Reducing the width to upto a tenth of their original, concreting the freshwater
streams and replacing their freshwater with sewage said to be the solution to
rid these streams of floods
• Three Phase Project with First Phase costing 388 crores created to rid Pune of
floods
• When JNNURM reduces funds sanctioned three basins from Phase I dropped
saying they were less critical
IDF Curve used to claim floods across Pune

10. Storm Water Drainage Project for Pune City PriMove
Chapter 4 Project Institution Framework
Pune Municipal Corporation 88
4.5 Construction Packages for Works Construction
The works covered by the project, costing Rs.388.03 crore are proposed to be
divided into six packages excluding the work of environmental compliance.
All the works included in one basin forms an independent package. This has
been planned, so as to ensure that responsibility of all works in one basin is with
one agency. These are described below:
Package
No.
Package Description Estimated cost
in (Rs) crores
1 Storm water drainage project for Pune
City- Storm water drainage works in Basin
G- Baner Balewadi area.
Rs. 66.67
2 Storm water drainage project for Pune
City- Storm water drainage works in Basin
M- Wadgaon Sheri
Rs. 57.44
3 Storm water drainage project for Pune
City- Storm water drainage works in Basin
N-Kharadi
Rs. 50.86
4 Storm water drainage project for Pune
City- Storm water drainage works in Basin
P- Kondhawa
Rs. 171.07
5 Storm water drainage project for Pune
City- Storm water drainage works in Basin
V- Wadgaon Bk
Rs. 36.49
6 Storm water drainage project for Pune
City- Supplying drain cleaning machinery
Rs. 5.00
Total Rs. 387.53
Environmental Compliance cost Rs.0.50
Total Base Cost Rs. 388.03
388 Crores to control non-existent floods, 0 crores for existing floods

11. • Most of the city roads do not have road side drains. Increasing paved areas
and development is causing water to flow on the roads. The total length of
roadside drains was 55 kms up to year 2006. The corporation has added
another 100 kms. of drains.
• July 25, 2005 experienced unusually high rainfall of 102.30 mm, inundating
many areas of Pune. Another day of heavy rainfall was June 5, 1976, with total
daily rainfall 120 mm
• The number and extent of flooded areas is increasing in recent years. This has
caused widespread disruption of traffic, damages to vehicles, loss of man-
hours and damage to roads.
PMC’s Justification of the Project

12. • Why it has failed to protect the width of the streams and rivers as per the DP/Survey Maps
• Why PMC has failed to check the tenement density per Ha as per Town Planning norms
• Why it has failed to make roads with drains
• How natural streams, which in most cases are far from roads, flood the roads
• How one day of rain, which caused floods in the Mutha due to release of water from
Khadakwasla, is used to justify a project with an overall outlay of over 1,000 crores that
promises to destroy the city’s natural fresh water streams and its groundwater recharge
• How constricting and cementing natural streams will rid the city of flooding when world over
creating unpaved corridors with tree cover that is used to control floods
What PMC does not explain

13. Basin G: Baner

14. Section of Baner DPR showing the actual fresh water stream and the proposed channel

15. Same section of Baner on the Development Plan

16. Groundwater being released to form fresh water stream before this part was channelized
Jan 2011

17. The channelized Devnadi can no longer collect and transport water. Notice
the waterlogging outside the channels.
Jul 2011

18. Mar 2012

19. Section of Baner DPR showing the actual fresh water stream and the proposed channel

20. PMC Tree Office planting trees with citizens on the Green belt

21. Citizens planting bamboo saplings on the gree

24. Children enjoying fresh water in the Devna

25. A portion of the green belt

26. Aerial view of a portion of the green belt

27. Green belt razed to the ground

28. Portion of the green belt completely leveled and rid of vegetation

29. Construction of slum begins in the green belt

30. Slum nearing completion, no action by PMC despite 30+ complaints

31. Slum on green belt habited with electricity and water, PMC ignores complaints

33. The completed "channelization"
S.No 78

34. The completed "channelization"
S.No 163

36. • Planning purposeless projects based on fraudulent data and premises
• Excluding the citizens and their participation
• Destroying the environment that they should protect
• Perjury by misrepresenting facts before court
• Aiding and encouraging illegalities while harassing the legal projects
• Demonstrating habitual contempt of law, justice and court orders
• Forgetting that they are the servants of the citizens and accountable to them
Bad Governance