Kharadi residents demand inclusion of the busy riverfront road into Ward 4, calling the PMC’s draft boundary illogical and inconvenient.
By Prashant for PuneriPages.in
Pune | August 26, 2025 — People in Kharadi aren’t happy with the way the new draft ward boundaries are being drawn up by the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The biggest point of contention? A key riverfront road has been left out of Ward 4 (Kharadi–Wadgaonsheri), and residents are saying this just doesn’t make sense.
For anyone living here, this road—from Wadgaonsheri Gaothan to Mundhwa Bridge—isn’t just a random stretch on the map. It’s the road thousands of us use daily to get to Mundhwa, Keshav Nagar, Koregaon Park, and beyond. Cutting it out of Ward 4 feels like cutting out the lifeline of Kharadi.
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Why This Road Matters to Us
- Connectivity: It’s one of the busiest stretches, connecting major pockets of the city.
- Clarity in responsibility: If it falls under another ward, we’ll have two corporators responsible for one road. Imagine the confusion when something goes wrong—streetlights, security, repairs—who do we even approach?
- Future growth: This area is growing fast, and the road will only get busier. It makes sense that it stays under the ward where most of its users actually live.
As the Kharadi Residents Association put it in their objection letter, “The current boundary is illogical and will create significant inconvenience for daily commuters and in addressing civic issues.”
Taking the Fight to PMC
To make their stand official, the Residents Association has already submitted a formal objection letter to the PMC. The demand is simple: bring that road into Ward 4 so the people who use it daily have proper representation.
This isn’t just happening in Kharadi, though. Every time PMC redraws ward boundaries before elections, adjustments are made based on population shifts. But often, these paper decisions clash with the reality we live with every day. And that’s when citizens like us need to raise our voice.
What’s Next in the Kharadi Residents Protest
The PMC will now review objections from across the city before finalizing the new boundaries. For us in Kharadi, the ask is clear and straightforward—don’t separate us from our own road.
At the end of the day, this whole episode shows something important: people are no longer staying silent. We’re speaking up, we’re questioning decisions, and we’re making sure civic bodies listen to the ones who are directly affected—the residents.
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