India, Oct. 4 -- The Smart City Park in Wadgaonsheri, developed at a cost of Rs.2 crore, has remained closed for the past eight years due to a lack of coordination between the Pune Smart City Development Corporation Limited (PSCDCL), the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) building department, and its garden department.

Spread over 2,163.75 sq. m on Nagar Road, the park was inaugurated in 2017 but never opened to the public. Conceived as a "place-making" project, it was meant to promote ecology and innovation through organic and modern farming, along with training facilities for citizens. None of these objectives was fulfilled. The site is now overrun with weeds, encroachments, and misused by addicts.

Officials admitted that the land was...