Innovative construction method will increase pillar spacing, reduce costs, ease traffic disruption, and accelerate elevated road development across Pune.
The Government of India is set to introduce Malaysian construction technology for Pune’s upcoming elevated road projects, enabling significantly wider spacing between support pillars and helping reduce construction costs, traffic disruption, and project timelines. The technology is expected to play a key role in modernising urban road infrastructure while improving traffic flow across the city.
According to Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari, the new engineering approach allows the distance between support pillars to increase from around 30 metres to nearly 120 metres. Fewer pillars mean reduced obstruction on existing roads, lower material consumption, and greater flexibility for constructing elevated corridors in densely populated urban areas.
The technology will be used in three major elevated road projects planned for the Pune region. These corridors are intended to reduce congestion, improve connectivity, and complement the city’s expanding transport network by providing uninterrupted traffic movement on key routes. Construction work is expected to begin following the foundation stone ceremony.
Besides reducing construction costs, the wider-span design is expected to minimise land acquisition requirements and shorten the duration of on-site work. The approach could also improve road aesthetics while allowing better utilisation of space beneath the elevated structures for local traffic and urban infrastructure.
The initiative reflects India’s increasing adoption of advanced international engineering practices to build faster, more efficient transport infrastructure. If successfully implemented, the Malaysian technology could become a model for future elevated road, flyover, and metro projects in other rapidly growing Indian cities.