India, Dec. 12 -- The state government has decided to transfer building permission rights for 23 merged villages from the PMRDA to the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC). The decision was taken in a PMRDA meeting chaired by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday in Nagpur.

Until now, PMRDA was issuing building permissions to these villages and collecting all related fees. PMC did not receive a share of this revenue even though it was responsible for providing civic services in the area. With the latest decision, PMC will now control permissions and planning in all 23 villages.

The 23 villages were added to PMC limits in two phases, but PMRDA had continued to handle their development plans and construction approvals.

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