pune the union ministry of urban development had simultaneously notified the metro railways act construction maintenance and operation for the pune and nagpur projects last month the notification however specified the route alignment for nagpur but not for pune as a result the final routes with destination details for the city could not be finalized the alignment for pune metro is possibly under scrutiny because of clarifications sought by various union government departments from the state government there has been a running debate about whether the city would benefit more from an elevated or an underground line punes mp anil shirole had recently hinted at reversing the upa governments decision to implement an elevated metro in the city shirole had said that it would be inappropriate to implement the metro project without rectifying major mistakes in the dmrc report experts have pointed out flaws in the report and we will ensure required amendments are made we support metro but not in the present form the city should have an underground metro because it is a more sustainable form of transport he said municipal commissioner kunal kumar said the alignments were mentioned only for nagpur as their metro project has already been approved the two alignments for the pune metro rail project would be included at a later stage currently the process of approval of metro projects in pune and lucknow is in progress he said the delhi metro rail corporations dmrc detailed project report dpr on pune metro identifies two corridors under phase i of the project swargatepcmc 1650km and ramwadivanaz 1492km last december the state government had submitted the dpr to the union government seeking its approval for phase i in february 2014 the ministry approved the project in principle subject to certain conditions and with an advisory that the state government should rework the dpr on realistic basis with adequate deliberations on the issues raised by various stakeholders the centre in june this year asked for clarifications from the state government on the comments and observations made by various union departments and ministries including railways on various points in the dpr the state government forwarded the clarifications to the ministry in august for nagpur the two alignments include the northsouth corridor 1965km from automotive square to khapri and the eastwest corridor 1855km from prajapati nagar to lokmanya nagar the number of stations as well as the location of depots has been specified