Magarpatta
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Magarpatta is a self-contained residential cum Industrial / Corporate settlement spanning over 400 Acres of land. It is situated along the Pune-Solapur Highway in Hadapsar, Pune
, Maharashtra
, India
. Magarpatta has been in the news for its novel approach to development of housing projects in India. Its award winning design and eco friendly construction made it the first such settlement in India to receive the ISO 9001 Certification. Today, Magarpatta houses the Indian branches of some of various IT/ITES corporates such as Accenture
, Amdocs
, Avaya
, Capita
, EDS
, Mphasis, Patni
and Sybase
. It also has offices of consulting firms like Dar Al-Handasah
and outsourcing services firms like EXL
.
Magarpatta City however continues to suffer from stench coming from Hadapsar Industrial Estate and Hadapsar Garbage Processing center. Stench is quite strong in the evening in areas around Iris, Jasminium and Mulberry Gardens.
Magarpatta City initiated proceeses towards private development of 'Integrated Township' at sucha a scale, in the country. The success of its development was instrumental in the State Govt. of Maharashtra incorporating a key legislation, called the Special Township Notification of 2006, part of the Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act of 1976, based on which many integrated township projects in Pune such as Amanora Park City, Blue Ridge and Megapolis have taken form. Magarpatta City based its innovative land-pooling methods into a path-breaking model, presently referred to as the Magarpatta Model, in which farmers together converted their cultivable land into a corporate enterprise.
The masterplanning and architectural development of Magarpatta City was undertaken by Associated Space Designers Pvt. Ltd, Pune, under the stewardship of Ar. Prakash Deshmukh.
Situated on the eastern side of Pune, Magarpatta is in close proximity to the Kharadi
IT Park, EON IT Park, Kalyani Nagar
, Koregaon Park
, Fatimanagar
and the Hadapsar
Industrial Estate.
Magarpatta has also been featured in the Discovery Channel
and has been the backdrop of many Indian movies including the blockbuster Sivaji, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
, Aitraaz
and the TV commercial for Suzuki
Swift brand of cars, the TVS Motors
brand of motorcycles,the TVS Motors
Wego brand of scooters, the Mahindra brand of motorcycles featuring Aamir Khan
and the TATA
DoCoMo
Commercial. Parts of the film Knock Out were also shot in Magarpatta City.
woke up to the violent protests against 'forced' land acquisitions for Special Economic Zones (SEZs), a small group of farmers on the fringes of Pune
decided to act before the process of globalisation and development swallowed up their ancestral farms.
The land they tilled has been under the Pune
municipal jurisdiction since 1960, though it was still an agricultural zone. But in 1982, the Pune Municipal Corporation marked it as a 'future urbanisable zone' in its draft development plan, which meant that the government could easily acquire the land under the Urban Land Ceiling Act
.
The Magar clan and their immediate neighbours, comprising 123 families that trace their ancestry back three centuries, had through the 1960s and '70s clung together to oppose the municipal administration's plan to urbanise their land. They were content with the steady income afforded by the sugarcane harvests, though some farmers in the neighbourhood, lured by the quick buck, had sold their lands to real estate developers.
By the late-'80s, the Magars realised that the city, already bursting at the seams, would eventually claim their land for infrastructure development. "It finally dawned on us that we were fighting a losing battle against rapid urbanization, and this meant we had to act soon," said Babasaheb Magar, a senior member of the clan.
The Magars decided that they would develop the land themselves. The fact that they knew nothing about land development and had little money did not deter them.
As the name 'Magarpatta' suggests, the Magar clan dominated, owning 40% of the total land or the largest patta (land strip) located next to the Hadapsar Industrial Estate. A young entrepreneur Satish Magar owned around 100 acre (40 ha) of land. Otherwise the average landholding per family was between 2 and 4 acre (2 ha). More than 90% of the farmers were Marathas while a few were from the Mali and Sonar communities.
Together they managed to pool together 400 acre (162 ha) before requesting architect Hafeez Contractor to draft a private township plan, which was submitted to the concerned departments of the state administration for approval. Amid great apprehension, the families applied for conversion of the entire stretch into a non-agricultural zone.
A new government came to power in Maharashtra
in 1995, while the idea was still at a very nascent stage. Seeking government approval proved an uphill task as applications and files moved from one department to another at a snail's pace. At subsequent informal meetings, the families began expressing concern over livelihoods as they had known only farming till then.
But they trusted Mr Satish Magar, the nephew of an enterprising local political heavyweight named Annasaheb Magar, who was instrumental in establishing the twin industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad
in the 1960s. Pimpri-Chinchwad
is now bustling with industrial activity and is one of the country's richest municipalities. Magarpatta, Satish thought, was going to be a re-enactment of Pimpri-Chinchwad, but with a focus on new-age industries like software and business process outsourcing.
Satish mooted the idea of a company rather than a cooperative so that each family got shares equal to the size of their landholding. The company was registered as the Magarpatta Township Development and Construction Company Limited; Satish became its managing director.
The Magarpatta Township Development and Construction Company has recently embarked on a project to create yet another such "mini-township". Its called the "Nanded City" project which is currently under development near Khadakvasala.
other than the above mentioned entities, Magarpatta also has a large circular garden named "Aditi Gardens" which lies in the geometric centre of the Cybercity circle. Magarpatta has two schools (primary to senior secondary) of which one is under construction and one fully functional. The "Noble Hospital" also comes directly under the Magarpatta umbrella association.
found the world over.
The general construction pattern of each residential neighborhood is to have multistory apartments numbered alphabetically with floors numbered
Following are the list of residential projects (inclusive of planned, in progress or completed)
Of the above neighborhoods, Acacia Gardens and Mulberry Gardens comprise individually designed bungalows only.
Mega Center is the oldest of all commercial projects in Magarpatta. It houses the office of some of the most prominent local builders and logistics providers. Until late 2007, Amdocs Business Support had its infrastructure setup in the Mega Center.The Destination center is relatively new and houses the Magarpatta Sales and Property Management Services (PMS) office. It also houses the branches of HDFC and ICICI
Bank. The Magarpatta City Mall is an upcoming project that would house many national and international brands and retail chains. The mall is currently under construction.
Pune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
, Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. Magarpatta has been in the news for its novel approach to development of housing projects in India. Its award winning design and eco friendly construction made it the first such settlement in India to receive the ISO 9001 Certification. Today, Magarpatta houses the Indian branches of some of various IT/ITES corporates such as Accenture
Accenture
Accenture plc is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company headquartered in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. It is the largest consulting firm in the world and is a Fortune Global 500 company. As of September 2011, the company had more than 236,000 employees across...
, Amdocs
Amdocs
Amdocs Limited is a provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management , operations support systems...
, Avaya
Avaya
Avaya Inc. is a privately held computer networking, information technology and telecommunications company that is a global provider of business communications systems. The international head quarters is in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, United States...
, Capita
Capita Group
The Capita Group Plc , commonly known as Capita Group or Capita, is a business process outsourcing and recruitment company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest business process outsourcing company in the UK, with an overall market share of 27% in 2009, and has clients in...
, EDS
EDS
- Education :* Educational specialist , a terminal academic degree in the U.S.* Episcopal Divinity School, an Episcopal Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts* Evansville Day School, an independent college-prep school in Evansville, Indiana- Politics :...
, Mphasis, Patni
Patni
Patni may refer to:* Patni , a Jain family name from India* Patni Jamat, a Muslim community in India* Patni Computer Systems, an information technology company...
and Sybase
Sybase
Sybase, an SAP company, is an enterprise software and services company offering software to manage, analyze, and mobilize information, using relational databases, analytics and data warehousing solutions and mobile applications development platforms....
. It also has offices of consulting firms like Dar Al-Handasah
Dar Al-Handasah
Dar Al-Handasah is an international leading project design, management and supervision consultancy and founding member of the Dar Group. It is a multidisciplinary consulting organization for engineering, architecture, planning, environment, project management, and economics...
and outsourcing services firms like EXL
EXL
EXL Service is a provider of outsourcing and transformation services. EXL's services are structured around insurance, banking, financial services, utilities, transportation and travel industries...
.
Magarpatta City however continues to suffer from stench coming from Hadapsar Industrial Estate and Hadapsar Garbage Processing center. Stench is quite strong in the evening in areas around Iris, Jasminium and Mulberry Gardens.
Magarpatta City initiated proceeses towards private development of 'Integrated Township' at sucha a scale, in the country. The success of its development was instrumental in the State Govt. of Maharashtra incorporating a key legislation, called the Special Township Notification of 2006, part of the Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act of 1976, based on which many integrated township projects in Pune such as Amanora Park City, Blue Ridge and Megapolis have taken form. Magarpatta City based its innovative land-pooling methods into a path-breaking model, presently referred to as the Magarpatta Model, in which farmers together converted their cultivable land into a corporate enterprise.
The masterplanning and architectural development of Magarpatta City was undertaken by Associated Space Designers Pvt. Ltd, Pune, under the stewardship of Ar. Prakash Deshmukh.
Situated on the eastern side of Pune, Magarpatta is in close proximity to the Kharadi
Kharadi
Kharadi area is located in the eastern corridor of Pune. It has become one of the upcoming area because of EON Special Economic Zone, an IT park having offices of IT and ITES companies. Nearby areas to Kharadi are Koregaon Park, Kalyani Nagar, Wagholi, Chandan Nagar and Mundwa....
IT Park, EON IT Park, Kalyani Nagar
Kalyani Nagar
Kalyani Nagar is a neighbourhood located in the eastern region of Pune, India. It has a population of around 30,000.It is named after Neelkanth Kalyani, one of the city's foremost industrialists who pioneered the Kalyani Forging company in the early 1960s...
, Koregaon Park
Koregaon Park
Koregaon Park is an area in Pune south to Mula-Mutha River. The area is often viewed as the most posh place in the city of Pune. This area was primarily a residential area with lush green scenery but of late has been growing into a commercial market place in Pune city...
, Fatimanagar
Fatimanagar
Fatimanagar is situated in Pune near the Pune cantonment area.It is one of the fastest developing areas in Pune.-External Links:*...
and the Hadapsar
Hadapsar
Hadapsar is an eastern suburb in Pune City, Maharashtra, India. It is a marketplace for vegetables and other agricultural goods where farmers directly sell these items. Hadapsar is also well known for two SEZs: Magarpatta city and Fursungi IT Park have given Hadapsar a new direction in IT and ITES...
Industrial Estate.
Magarpatta has also been featured in the Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel is an American satellite and cable specialty channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications. It is a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav...
and has been the backdrop of many Indian movies including the blockbuster Sivaji, Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani
-Track listing:-Reception:The soundtrack received generally favorable reviews from critics. Samir Dave of Planet Bollywood gave it a rating of 7.5/10 and said, "If you are looking for an enjoyable potpourri of different musical styles, and melody, then you will love what Pritam has served up for,...
, Aitraaz
Aitraaz
Aitraaz is a 2004 Bollywood thriller film starring Akshay Kumar, Kareena Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra, directed by Abbas-Mustan. Chopra received the Filmfare Best Villain Award for her performance. This film was largely based on the 1994 Hollywood movie Disclosure...
and the TV commercial for Suzuki
Suzuki
is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Hamamatsu, Japan that specializes in manufacturing compact automobiles and 4x4 vehicles, a full range of motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles , outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal combustion engines...
Swift brand of cars, the TVS Motors
TVS Motors
TVS Motor Company is the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India.It is the flagship company of the parent TVS Group employing over 40,000 people with an estimated 15 million customers. It manufactures motorcycles, scooters, mopeds and auto rickshaws...
brand of motorcycles,the TVS Motors
TVS Motors
TVS Motor Company is the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India.It is the flagship company of the parent TVS Group employing over 40,000 people with an estimated 15 million customers. It manufactures motorcycles, scooters, mopeds and auto rickshaws...
Wego brand of scooters, the Mahindra brand of motorcycles featuring Aamir Khan
Aamir Khan
Aamir Hussain Khan is an Indian film actor, director and producer who has established himself as one of the leading actors of Hindi cinema....
and the TATA
Tata
- Companies :* Tata Group, India's largest business group and multinational company** List of entities associated with Tata Group- People :* Tata family, an influential family of India owning the Tata Group** Jamsetji Tata, known as the father of Indian industry...
DoCoMo
DoCoMo
DoCoMo is a trademark of the NTT DoCoMo corporation of Japan, used in its home market and in India in partnership with Tata Teleservices. It is an acronym of the phrase "Do communications over the mobile network."See also the following mobile phone operators:...
Commercial. Parts of the film Knock Out were also shot in Magarpatta City.
History
Long before IndiaIndia
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
woke up to the violent protests against 'forced' land acquisitions for Special Economic Zones (SEZs), a small group of farmers on the fringes of Pune
Pune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
decided to act before the process of globalisation and development swallowed up their ancestral farms.
The land they tilled has been under the Pune
Pune
Pune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
municipal jurisdiction since 1960, though it was still an agricultural zone. But in 1982, the Pune Municipal Corporation marked it as a 'future urbanisable zone' in its draft development plan, which meant that the government could easily acquire the land under the Urban Land Ceiling Act
Urban Land Ceiling Act (India)
-Quote:"To provide for the imposition of a ceiling on vacant land in urban agglomerations, for the acquisition of such land in excess of the ceiling limit, to regulate the construction of buildings on such land and for matters connected therewith, with a view to preventing the concentration of...
.
The Magar clan and their immediate neighbours, comprising 123 families that trace their ancestry back three centuries, had through the 1960s and '70s clung together to oppose the municipal administration's plan to urbanise their land. They were content with the steady income afforded by the sugarcane harvests, though some farmers in the neighbourhood, lured by the quick buck, had sold their lands to real estate developers.
By the late-'80s, the Magars realised that the city, already bursting at the seams, would eventually claim their land for infrastructure development. "It finally dawned on us that we were fighting a losing battle against rapid urbanization, and this meant we had to act soon," said Babasaheb Magar, a senior member of the clan.
The Magars decided that they would develop the land themselves. The fact that they knew nothing about land development and had little money did not deter them.
As the name 'Magarpatta' suggests, the Magar clan dominated, owning 40% of the total land or the largest patta (land strip) located next to the Hadapsar Industrial Estate. A young entrepreneur Satish Magar owned around 100 acre (40 ha) of land. Otherwise the average landholding per family was between 2 and 4 acre (2 ha). More than 90% of the farmers were Marathas while a few were from the Mali and Sonar communities.
Together they managed to pool together 400 acre (162 ha) before requesting architect Hafeez Contractor to draft a private township plan, which was submitted to the concerned departments of the state administration for approval. Amid great apprehension, the families applied for conversion of the entire stretch into a non-agricultural zone.
A new government came to power in Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...
in 1995, while the idea was still at a very nascent stage. Seeking government approval proved an uphill task as applications and files moved from one department to another at a snail's pace. At subsequent informal meetings, the families began expressing concern over livelihoods as they had known only farming till then.
But they trusted Mr Satish Magar, the nephew of an enterprising local political heavyweight named Annasaheb Magar, who was instrumental in establishing the twin industrial township of Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pimpri-Chinchwad is a city in the Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It consists of the twin towns of Pimpri and Chinchwad which are governed by a common municipal body...
in the 1960s. Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pimpri-Chinchwad is a city in the Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It consists of the twin towns of Pimpri and Chinchwad which are governed by a common municipal body...
is now bustling with industrial activity and is one of the country's richest municipalities. Magarpatta, Satish thought, was going to be a re-enactment of Pimpri-Chinchwad, but with a focus on new-age industries like software and business process outsourcing.
Satish mooted the idea of a company rather than a cooperative so that each family got shares equal to the size of their landholding. The company was registered as the Magarpatta Township Development and Construction Company Limited; Satish became its managing director.
The Magarpatta Township Development and Construction Company has recently embarked on a project to create yet another such "mini-township". Its called the "Nanded City" project which is currently under development near Khadakvasala.
Magarpatta Today
Present day Magarpatta City consists of 3 primary real estate entities listed below:- Residential : includes all the residential neighborhoods such as "Roystonea", "Sylvania", "Daffodils","Iris","Cosmos","Jasminium","Trillium" etc.
- Commercial : includes the shopping complex "Destination Center" and "Mega Center".
- Cybercity : includes towers 1 to 12 and the new SEZSEZSEZ may refer to:*Special Economic Zone*Seychelles International Airport...
towers.
other than the above mentioned entities, Magarpatta also has a large circular garden named "Aditi Gardens" which lies in the geometric centre of the Cybercity circle. Magarpatta has two schools (primary to senior secondary) of which one is under construction and one fully functional. The "Noble Hospital" also comes directly under the Magarpatta umbrella association.
List of Residential Projects
All residential neighborhoods in Magarpatta have been named after various FloraFlora
Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life. The corresponding term for animals is fauna.-Etymology:...
found the world over.
The general construction pattern of each residential neighborhood is to have multistory apartments numbered alphabetically with floors numbered
Following are the list of residential projects (inclusive of planned, in progress or completed)
- Daffodils
- Cosmos
- Grevillea
- Erica
- Acacia Gardens
- Roystonea
- Heliconia
- Iris
- Jasminium
- Mulberry Gardens
- Trillium
- Sylvania
- Laburnum Park
- Zinnia
Of the above neighborhoods, Acacia Gardens and Mulberry Gardens comprise individually designed bungalows only.
List of Commercial Projects
- The Mega Center.
- The Destination Center.
- The Magarpatta City Mall.
Mega Center is the oldest of all commercial projects in Magarpatta. It houses the office of some of the most prominent local builders and logistics providers. Until late 2007, Amdocs Business Support had its infrastructure setup in the Mega Center.The Destination center is relatively new and houses the Magarpatta Sales and Property Management Services (PMS) office. It also houses the branches of HDFC and ICICI
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Bank. The Magarpatta City Mall is an upcoming project that would house many national and international brands and retail chains. The mall is currently under construction.
See also
- PunePunePune , is the eighth largest metropolis in India, the second largest in the state of Maharashtra after Mumbai, and the largest city in the Western Ghats. Once the centre of power of the Maratha Empire, it is situated 560 metres above sea level on the Deccan plateau at the confluence of the Mula ...
- Roads in Pune
- Every thing in My Area.(One of the Areas - Magarpatta City).Pls. note that this Website is NOT an official Website of Magarpatta, but it covers very useful informations for the residents residing in and around Magarpatta City, like many other areas it covers.