The six-hectare Kamothe bus terminal plot remains reserved for an interstate and intercity bus terminal, CIDCO has said, after a Panvel City Municipal Corporation corporator sought details of the land’s status and raised apprehensions about a possible transfer to a private developer.
The plot, identified as Plot 30 in Sector 25, Kamothe, is reserved for an interstate bus terminal and an intercity bus terminal serving Navi Mumbai. Corporator Vikas Gharat wrote to the Panvel mayor and municipal commissioner in June 2026 seeking details of any transaction involving the CIDCO-reserved land. He sent a reminder in August.
Gharat’s five-point request included details of the basis on which CIDCO may have given the plot to a developer, the name of the developer, the responsible CIDCO department, and copies of any approval, resolution or order connected with the land. He also asked the municipal corporation not to sanction any permission on the plot and sought confirmation that the reservation would remain unchanged in the public interest.
The corporator had not received a response from PCMC by October 15, when the civic body’s special general body passed a resolution to begin its own bus transport service. The timing brought the reserved plot into sharper focus because the corporation is now moving towards a municipal transport operation, while the land is earmarked for intercity and interstate services.
PCMC estate section official Jayram Padir said the civic body had not demanded the plot from CIDCO for any public utility purpose. “The said plot has not been demanded for any public utility purpose from the CIDCO,” he said.
A senior official from CIDCO’s planning department said the reservation on the plot had not been changed. “The plot status reservation remains unchanged,” the official said, adding that the site was intended for intercity services to Pune or interstate buses and was therefore outside the purview of PCMC’s proposed transport service.
The statements distinguish between two transport responsibilities. PCMC’s proposed bus service is a municipal initiative, while the Kamothe site is reserved for a larger regional function involving intercity and interstate buses. The source report does not provide details of any approved transfer, development agreement or permission granted to a private builder, and the developer referred to in the corporator’s letter has not been named.
The plot’s status is significant because bus terminals require land reserved for passenger movement, vehicle operations and supporting public transport facilities. Any change in reservation or development permission would therefore involve both land-use decisions and the coordination of responsibilities between CIDCO and the municipal corporation.
For now, CIDCO’s stated position is that the reservation remains unchanged. PCMC’s special general body has separately resolved to commence its own bus service, while the corporation’s response to the corporator’s five-point request was not available in the supplied report. The next formal step is the disclosure of the approvals, orders or departmental records sought by Gharat from the civic and planning authorities.
