pune a citizens group has claimed that the real objective of the proposed balbharatipaud phata bbpp road across the lower slope of vetal tekdi is to provide access to a planned township development project on the hill the civic body has so far said that the road aims to address traffic congestion on law college roadthe claims are based on an investigation conducted by the group vetal tekdi bachav kruti samiti with documents sought under the right to information rti act and other sourcessushma date a member of the group said during the examination of the documents a map was discovered in volume 3 part 1 of the detailed project report of bbpp road this map outlined a proposed township project on survey 44 located on vetal tekdi the project which received approval from the deputy director of town planning slum rehabilitation authority in february 2019 included multiple commercial buildings shopping centres and a 41floor residential buildingwhile survey 44 is designated as a park and recreational area zone green and slum improvement orange zone in development plan 200727 it lacks a suitable access road apart from the narrow arai road through the dense kelewadi slum karve road and paud road are at a much lower gradient and a cliff separates the property from them date addedprajakta divekar another member of the citizens group said pmc also intends to change the balbharati road alignment at an escalated cost supposedly to align it with the proposed high capacity mass transit route hcmtr on the plot however the map obtained clearly indicates that this change would provide a 30m wide road access to the real estate project on survey 44 resulting in an increase in floor space index fsivetal tekdi bachav kruti samiti members also inspected pune municipal corporation files on may 29 at the civic bodys office they revealed drawings of the new alignment in survey 44 there was also a letter by the builders architect which was an application for an alignment change under section 151 of the urban development and control regulations and planning udcrp in november 2020 date saida senior pmc official refuted the claims and said survey 44 has access to both paud road and karve road therefore the place does not need new access the alignment was also not changed both alignments balbharti road and hcmtr were already proposed earlier as part of the dp aligning the road with the proposed hcmtr was only done to save nearly 300 slum hutments that were coming in the way of the alignment proposed earlierbut divekar pointed out that karve road and paud road do not give access to survey 44 which is on a hill moreover there is a difference between a small approach road and a 30m wide road through the property as this increases fsi direct access from senapati bapat road will increase property value of this planned township multifold divekar saidthough pmc claims this will be a noaccess road the dpr shows that service roads are