Maharashtra Valley View’s lakeside hill township was recently granted clearance by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA).

The new hill township will be spread over 5,914 acre in Mulshi taluka of Pune district.

The SEIAA is the final authority in appraising real estate, industrial and commercial projects in the state after they are screened by the State Environment Appraisal Committees (SEAC) operating under it. The authority gave environment clearance to the project during its meeting held on 29 October, 2014.

The approval however, is only for basic land and infrastructure development and not a blanket clearance for all construction. The clearance is restricted only to the extent of development of roads and related infrastructure such as electricity, telecommunications, transportation, water reservoirs, landfills and so on.

Once the basic infrastructure is ready, it will be seen as to how much load the area can take. The Maharashtra Valley View will have to approach the authority again with layout plans and structural details of each proposed unit with the approval of the local planning authority to obtain approvals for further construction. The Floor Space Index considerations will be worked out separately based on land uses and approvals from the planning authorities.

Maharashtra Valley had applied for environment clearance for the project in December 2010. Two SEACs scrutinised the project from September 2011 to July 2013, and again from January 2014 to May 2014, before it came for approval to the SEIAA. The project was much deliberated upon by the SEACs as it falls under an environmentally sensitive region in the Western Ghats.

This will be the third hill township to come up after Lavasa and Aamby Valley under the Maharashtra government’s policy to build new hill stations.

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Township (Mulshi) Project