The plan and the city

In 2008, Pimpri-Chinchwad wrote a Comprehensive Mobility Plan (CMP): how many people the city would hold, and how they would move. This page puts that plan next to what was counted afterwards.

Orange is what the plan said, on every chart. Every other colour is something counted.

The city grew faster than the plan expected

Three years after the plan was written, the 2011 census counted people, where the plan expected . That is more. India has held no census since, so the plan's figures for 2021 and 2031 cannot be checked.

Vehicles grew twice as fast as people

Between the 2001 and 2011 censuses the population grew ×. In the same ten years registered cars and jeeps grew × and two-wheelers ×. The registrations are a running total that never subtracts a scrapped vehicle, so they overstate the vehicles on the road; the gap is too wide for that to close it.

People have two points only: the two censuses. Registration years run April to March, so 2001 means 2001-02.

Buses never reached the national benchmark

The Ministry of Urban Development's service benchmark counts buses on the road per 1,000 people. Level 1, the best service, needs 0.6 or more.

Before it merged into PMPML in 2007, the city's own bus service ran about 0.1 buses per 1,000 people. PMPML ran across both cities in , and that divides by the 2011 population: today's population is larger, so the true figure is lower. Both sit at Level 3 or below.

The empty years from 2008 to 2022 are missing data, not missing buses.

The plan wanted more riders in PCMC than PMPML carries in both cities

The plan projected public transport trips a day in Pimpri-Chinchwad by 2021. The four depots inside PCMC carry about a quarter of that. PMPML's whole network, across both cities, carries about the same number the plan wanted for PCMC alone, and it carries fewer each year.

Two cautions make this comparison rough, but not wrong. First, buses cross the city line, so "PCMC depots" means the four depots inside the PCMC boundary (Bhosari, Charholi, Nigadi and Pimpri), not riders who live in PCMC. Second, PMPML counts boardings where the plan counts trips. A trip with a change of bus is two boardings, so the true count of trips is lower still.