The DPR will consider various aspects such as land availability, existing status of public transport services on the route and estimated commuter footfall. The proposal of Swargate-Katraj Metro route has already received consent of the state government.Meanwhile, Bhimale said there was a plan to extend the metro rail network in 44km stretches in Pune and Pimpri Chinchwad in a phased manner apart from existing two sanctioned routes — Pimpri-Swargate and Vanaz-Ramwadi . "Demands for the extension of the Metro services have been received from all over the city. Fresh demands have been made to consider the Metro rail services on Hadapsar and Sinhagad Road routes. MahaMetro has started the groundwork on Pimpri to Range Hills and Vanaz to Civil Court routes.

Source: Times of India January 04, 2018 19:18 UTC