University Road, located in the West of Pune in Maharashtra. It is one of the developed locality and comes under the jurisdiction of Pune Municipal Corporation. Its official name is Ganesh Khind Road. It is one of the widest and best constructed roads in Pune. This road starts from the Indian Meteorological Department (also called Shimla office) intersection and ends at the University of Pune Circle. University road has four lanes throughout, and at places it is even six lanes wide. Pune University, Sadhu Vaswani Nagar, Chavan Nagar, Bhosale Nagar, Pashan, Gokhale Nagar, Shivaji Nagar, Bopodi Aundh, Khadki and Baner are its neighboring localities. Several important institutions such as SSC Board, The Bank Of Maharashtra Head Office, The agriculture College, Catering College, The Govt. Polytechnic Pune are on this road. Some of the key residential projects in University Road are Rohan 10 Kasturkunj, Pristine Royale, Paranjape Crystal Tower, Rainbow Apartments, Kumar Privie Shiloh among others.
Connectivity
The areas around University Road is well connected to other parts of the city through a number of roads, lanes and bypasses. University Road is connected to a number of roads like Senapati bapat Road, Range Hill Road, FC Road, KB Joshi Path. It is the major road which has further access to SH 114 and NH 60.
It has close proximity to Pune International Airport which is located at a driving distance of 19 km via Lohegaon Road.
It’s nearby railway stations are Shivajinagar, Pune Junction, Ghorpadi and Khadki. However, Shivajinagar is the nearest railway station to University Road located at a distance of 6 kms only.
Factors for past growth
Proximity to Pune Airport, Shivajinagar railway station and bus depot along with major technology park such as Pune IT Park and Koregaon IT Park have been a plus point for University Road. Hence, a fair number of workforce work in nearby IT Hubs, wanted to have their residences close to their workplace. As a result, 1 BHK apartments in University Road are in huge demand.
The locality is experiencing rapid residential and industrial development owing to its strong connectivity with key regions like Koregaon Park, Pashan, Shivaji Nagar and Aundh via Roadways.
The presence of Banks, ATMs, Schools,colleges and higher educational institutions, Hospitals and retail stores etc. in the locality makes University Road a self-sustained locality.
Employment Hubs near University Road
Thube Park
Platinum Tech Park
Science and Technology Park Pune
Nano Space IT Park
Pune IT Park
Infrastructural Development (Social & Physical)
Sparkles Nursery School, AW Sindhu Vidya Bhavan School, PES Modern English Medium High School, St. Joseph High School, Loyola High School, Eurokids Ashok Nagar, PES Modern English Medium High School, Range Hills English School are some of the good quality schools in the locality.
Some of the renowned hospitals which provides health care facility to the residents of University Road are Central Govt Health Services, Aditya Birla Clinic, Apollo Clinic-Aundh, Parmar Multispeciality Hospital, Sai Shree Hospital and Shashwat Hospital-Aundh to name a few.
To serve the daily needs of the people, City Mall, E Square mall And Khadke Center Port are lie in the vicinity.