Purandar Airport is Pune's proposed second international airport, officially the Chhatrapati Sambhajiraje International Airport, being built to relieve the saturated Lohegaon airport. The existing airport operates as a civil enclave sharing its runway with the Indian Air Force, which caps how much commercial and cargo traffic it can handle.

The new facility is a greenfield project in Purandar taluka, planned with two parallel 4,000-metre runways capable of handling wide-body aircraft. It is being developed through a special purpose vehicle with CIDCO holding 51 percent, MADC 19 percent, and PMRDA and MIDC 15 percent each. MIDC leads land acquisition under the Maharashtra Industrial Development Act, 1961.

This is a state infrastructure project, not a private development. Boundaries, compensation and timelines are set by government notification, not by developer marketing, which is precisely why broker claims about the boundary carry no weight.

The Maharashtra Cabinet approved the project in February 2026, with the state targeting 1 June 2026 to complete land acquisition.

Two different figures circulate and they measure different things. The total notified site area is approximately 2,823 hectares. The private land currently under acquisition across the seven villages is roughly 1,216 hectares, authorised under the February 2026 Government Resolution. By May 2026, the district administration had received consent affidavits covering about 466 hectares of that, roughly 38 percent.

Reported consent percentages run higher, with figures around 90 to 94 percent cited at various points. Consent and completed acquisition are not the same measure, and the gap between them is where the timeline risk sits.

A High Power Committee meeting on 24 April 2026 approved compensation of approximately ₹1.61 crore per acre. Maharashtra's finance department issued a ₹6,000 crore state-guaranteed HUDCO loan facility so MIDC can pay compensation without waiting on budget cycles, with ₹500 crore reported as released to the district administration.

Land Acquisition Timeline

The project was originally proposed near Chakan in 2009, with farmer opposition forcing a site change by 2015. Purandar was proposed in September 2016, and the technical survey at that stage covered a different set of villages including Pargaon Memane, Rajewadi, Waghapur, Ambodi, Pisarve, Rajodi, Jejuri and Saswad. The alignment subsequently changed, which is why the villages finally notified are not the ones surveyed in 2016.

Opposition resurfaced in 2020. Momentum returned in March 2025 when MIDC began acquisition using a pass-through method, an arrangement in which the state routes funds through MIDC to pay landowners directly rather than acquiring through the standard budgetary route. The February 2026 Government Resolution and Cabinet approval followed.

Acquisition covers Pargaon, Khanwadi, Munjwadi, Ekhatpur, Kumbharvalan, Vanpuri and Udachiwadi.

A notification issued by the Industries Department declared this land an industrial zone under the MIDC Act. Acquisition here is not speculative. It is a legally notified process, and land inside the boundary will pass to the government regardless of any private sale agreement.

If a survey number sits inside the notified boundary, no broker paperwork changes the outcome. The land is acquired and statutory compensation follows the recorded landholder. A buyer who paid a market premium above the compensation rate has no mechanism to recover the difference.

Land measurement across the seven villages was targeted for completion by October 2025. Any plot offered for private sale inside these villages after that point warrants serious scrutiny of why it is being sold at all.

The site sits in Purandar taluka, approximately 20 to 25 kilometres southeast of Pune city. Higher figures of 40 to 50 kilometres appear in some reporting, reflecting road distance by particular routes rather than the site's position.

The main approaches run through Saswad and Dive Ghat, or via Katraj Ghat and the Mumbai-Pune-Satara corridor. Saswad and Jejuri, both established towns nearby, are expected to see increased traffic and commercial activity as construction proceeds. Improved rail connectivity has been reported as planned, aimed at reducing road dependence once operational.

Construction commencement has been targeted for October or November 2026 with a three-year completion deadline, pointing to an operational window around 2029 to 2030. Treat that as a target rather than a date.

The real variable is not proximity. It is boundary precision. Land just outside the notified zone can appreciate as connectivity improves. Land just inside is acquired at a fixed rate whatever premium was paid.

The second issue is NA conversion. Most agricultural land near the airport has not been converted to Non-Agricultural status, and under PMRDA rules unconverted land cannot legally support construction. Paying a premium for future development rights on unconverted land is a risk unrelated to the airport itself. The PMRDA masterplan layer shows the zone position across Purandar and the other eight talukas in the region.

Plots sold on Power of Attorney or unregistered Agreement of Sale. Brokers in Saswad, Jejuri and Dive Ghat have reportedly used these without a valid NA order attached. They can look legitimate while carrying serious defects. MahaRERA has been pursuing unregistered agents in these fringe areas.

Occupant Class II land. Under Section 29 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, Class II holders cannot transfer without Collector permission. The class shows on the 7/12 as Bhogwatdar Varg. Pull the extract from bhulekh.mahabhumi.gov.in and read that field before anything else.

Measurement before approval. Since February 2026, Maharashtra requires tentative layout approval from the planning authority before land measurement can proceed. A broker offering to measure first and approve later is operating outside the law, and that alone is enough to end the conversation.

Zone certificate. Confirm the plot's land use under the applicable development plan rather than assuming a fringe location will be rezoned.

Every risk above resolves to one question a buyer can answer independently: where does this survey number sit.

1acre maintains a Purandar airport acquisition layer mapping the notified boundary so a specific survey number can be checked against it before any payment, alongside the PMRDA and Pune zone layers that govern what can be built outside it. The Maharashtra unit converter handles the hectare, guntha and acre conversions the 7/12 will give you.

The honest limits. A map layer shows the boundary as notified, and notifications can be amended. It does not show title, Occupant Class or NA status, all of which come from the 7/12 and the revenue office. For anything binding, the MIDC notification and the Sub-Registrar record are what count.

Check the survey number against the MIDC-notified acquisition boundary before any payment

Pull the 7/12 on Mahabhulekh and read the Occupant Class field

Ask for a current NA conversion certificate if you intend to build

Confirm tentative layout approval exists before any measurement takes place

Verify that any agent or developer is RERA-registered

Track official notifications rather than broker claims about airport premium