Pune Promised the Katraj-Kondhwa Road by June. It's Now Due in March 2027 — and Again in 2028.

Here's the deadline history on Pune's Katraj-Kondhwa Road, in order: open by June 2026. Missed. Widening complete by March 2027. Still pending. Full 84-metre expansion land acquisition done by March 2028. That's the current promise, issued by PMC Commissioner Naval Kishore Ram after the previous one quietly expired.

What actually happened between "June" and "still not open"

Pune Municipal Corporation had publicly assured residents the widened road would open by the end of June this year. It didn't. By late September, the road was still described in local reporting as plagued by potholes and waterlogging, with construction visibly incomplete. The Commissioner's response wasn't a new completion date so much as two new completion dates on two different timelines: the 50-metre widening by March 2027, and a separate, larger target — expanding the road to 84 metres — with land acquisition alone not finishing until March 2028.

The actual holdup, and it's not what you'd guess

Most of the service road work is reportedly done. What's stalling the next phase — the grade separator bridge — is electric poles. They need to be relocated before that construction can proceed, and as of the most recent reporting, they hadn't been. In parallel, PMC spent part of this year on enforcement: anti-encroachment demolitions in July cleared nine RCC buildings standing in the widening's path, after the civic body took possession of acquired land in June.

The flyover component has its own, separate clock

Layered on top of the road widening is the Katraj Chowk flyover, a connected but distinct piece of the project, which a National Highway Division engineer put at a December 2026 completion target — a different timeline again, and a different chokepoint than the NH-48 tunnel GoVia has written about on the Satara side of Katraj.

If you use this road, the math hasn't changed

Katraj-Kondhwa connects two of the busier residential and commercial pockets on Pune's south side, and none of this — the missed June date, the pole relocation, the new 2027/2028 targets — makes the daily commute through it any shorter right now. A road stuck mid-widening, with active construction zones and detours layered on top of already-heavy traffic, is close to the worst-case scenario for a solo drive. It's also exactly the kind of predictable, worsening-before-it-gets-better corridor where carpooling with a neighbour on the same route pays off immediately, not eighteen months from now.