Understanding the Urban Issues of Chakan & Rajgurunagar Town & Proposals of Urban Design Policies

As Chakan is declared as a municipal town for nagar palika in 2015, the basic infrastructural facilities needs to be developed. Chakan has to be flourished as a satellite town around Pune city to reduce an excessive load on Pune city. Though it has 5 star MIDC, Chakan is facing serious problems like traffic, narrow roads, unplanned market spaces, disturbed & congested social & physical infrastructure. There is still lot of dependency of local people on nearest Pune city like healthcare, cultural activities.

Rajgurunagar (Khed) is named after iconic Indian freedom fighter Shivaram Rajguru. Khed is birthplace of Shivram Rajguru. Rajgurunagar is also declared as a municipal town for nagar palika. This town lacks in basic infrastructural facilities. Rajgurunagar has a great potential in having agro product market. As there are many famous temples & ‘Hutatma Rajguru’ background Rajgurunagar possesses good potential for tourism. Some urban design parameters has to be set for flourishing tourism there that will be resulted in revenue generation. Due to ‘Khed city’ proposal overall supporting infrastructure needs to be planned out to solve current problems.

This paper aims at identification & nature of problems & their solutions in terms of design policies & building proposals Chakan & Rajgurunagar for betterment & smooth working of the towns. By observing the potentials & future aspects this paper suggests that there is need of development in physical infrastructure & provision of urban design policies to cope up with the rapid development in a systematic way.