Pune's Nigdi-Chakan Metro Grew by 4.4 Kilometres and ₹2,554 Crore in Three Months. Now It Needs to Demolish a Flyover.

In April this year, MahaMetro's plan for a Nigdi-to-Chakan metro corridor was 40.9 kilometres, 31 stations, and an estimated ₹10,383.89 crore. By July, the same project — the same corridor, the same agency — had become 45.295 kilometres, 34 stations, and ₹12,937.23 crore. That's 4.4 extra kilometres, three more stations, and roughly ₹2,554 crore in additional cost, inside a single fiscal quarter.

Where the extra length actually goes

The revised route starts at Bhakti-Shakti Chowk in Nigdi and runs through Ravet, Punawale, Tathawade, Wakad, Pimple Saudagar, Pimple Gurav, Nashik Phata, Bhosari, Moshi, and Kurali before ending in Chakan — with 28 of the 34 stations falling inside Pimpri-Chinchwad and the remaining six under Chakan Municipal Council. Three entirely new stations were added in the revision: Landewadi, Bhosari Gaon, and Bhosari Sector No. 1. There's also a planned interchange at Wakad with the Hinjawadi-Shivajinagar metro line — meaning this corridor isn't just reaching a new industrial belt, it's meant to connect into the metro network Pune already has rather than sitting apart from it.

The part nobody's fully signed off on yet

Building the revised route elevated through Bhosari means demolishing the existing flyover on the Pune-Nashik Highway there. MahaMetro has put that plan on record. What it doesn't have yet, as of the most recent reporting, is formal approval from the civic body for that demolition — and a working flyover that commuters currently rely on, slated for removal to make way for a metro line that's still years from opening, is exactly the kind of decision that tends to get contested once it's actually in front of people rather than on a planning document.

A corridor worth watching, not relying on

For anyone commuting along the existing Pune-Nashik Highway through Bhosari, Moshi, or further out toward Chakan today, none of this changes your Tuesday morning. What it signals is that the route planning itself is still actively moving — three months, 4.4 extra kilometres, and a flyover demolition added to the plan is not the profile of a project entering its final design phase. Until there's a confirmed construction start and a flyover decision that's actually been through approval rather than just announced, the Chakan-to-Nigdi stretch stays what it's always been: a long, metro-less commute best split with someone making the same trip.