Pune: PMC Calls For Meeting After High Court Flags City’s Water Crisis
Pune: PMC Calls For Meeting After High Court Flags City’s Water Crisis
Pune, November 17, 2025: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has convened a meeting following the Bombay High Court’s recent directions on issues of water scarcity, supply shortages, and non-distribution across several parts of the city.
The Additional Commissioner of PMC has invited Resident Welfare Associations, housing societies, and NGOs from areas such as Ambegaon Budruk, Dhankawadi, and other affected localities to submit and discuss their written grievances.
The meeting will take place on November 18 at 11:30 AM in the New Standing Committee Hall at the PMC headquarters in Shivajinagar.
The development comes in the wake of a Public Interest Litigation (PIL 126/2023) filed by advocate Satya Muley on behalf of multiple resident associations. The petition challenges the persistent water shortages within PMC-controlled urban areas, despite local reservoirs and dams holding adequate water levels.
Muley highlighted that many housing societies continue to receive insufficient or highly irregular piped water supply. He further argued that the PMC’s failure to ensure consistent distribution has forced citizens to depend heavily on private water tankers—strengthening what he described as a “tanker mafia”—and placing an unfair financial burden on residents.
