PMC Pune GPR Survey and Underground Utility Mapping

When can roads be dug in Pune, and when should the survey happen?

The survey belongs in the dry months before excavation, because PMC tightly limits road digging through the monsoon. In April 2024 the corporation told its departments to finish road digging by 30 April. It warned of legal action against unauthorised digging between 1 May and 30 September, allowing only emergency work. Rules can change each year, so confirm the current notice with the ward office.

A second rule raises the stakes. In October 2025 the commissioner announced a fine of ten times the road cost for any agency that digs up a newly paved road. Underground utility work is to be completed before resurfacing. Mapping underground services before a resurfacing package starts is the simplest way to stay clear of that fine.

What does a PMC Pune utility survey record?

Each line we pick up beside your alignment, drawn where it runs, with a rough depth, its probable owner and the tool that confirmed it. PMC runs roads, water supply and sewerage. Power cables are mostly MSEDCL's, piped gas belongs to Maharashtra Natural Gas, and fibre is spread across many operators.

The corporation was set up on 15 February 1950 and is organised into five zones with fifteen ward offices. Its area grew in 2017, when eleven villages were merged, and again in 2021, when 23 more were added. Those fringe areas have the thinnest utility data of all.

How does each part of the city differ underground?

The old core is crowded, the merged villages are poorly recorded and the newer suburbs change fastest.

Table note: for levels and road features, add a topographic survey for Pune sites on the same visit.

How do basalt, murum and black soil affect the radar?

Dry murum and weathered basalt let radar see well; black cotton soil, which is rich in clay, holds water and cuts depth sharply. GPR is a geophysical method that images the subsurface by sending electromagnetic waves down and timing the reflected signals. Pune sits on the Deccan basalt, and many roads have only a few metres of weathered rock or murum above hard rock, which suits scanning. Wet black soil has high electrical conductivity and can hide a pipe at modest depth.

Day one on a Pune site is spent reading the ground and choosing antennas; where the image goes soft, the locator takes the lead. Shallow rock also means shallow services, which are easier to find and easier to hit. See see GPR survey in Pune for a fuller comparison of the soils.

Why are water and sewer jobs the most common?

Pipe replacement and new mains are a steady part of civic work, and they cross almost every other service in the road. A new main meets house connections, cables and drains every few metres. Tracing old pipe, plastic and AC included, takes its own techniques, and underground pipeline detection at a glance shows how radar, sondes and chamber checks fit together.

Projects outside PMC's limits, in the wider metropolitan region, follow a different authority and often run on much longer routes; see PMRDA utility survey for Pune sites.

How have metro and smart city works changed the ground?

Services along the metro and smart roads were shifted quickly and often, which leaves any pre-works drawing suspect. MahaMetro's Pune lines run through the corporation's area, and the Hinjewadi–Shivajinagar Line 3, built for PMRDA, opened to passengers in early November 2026. Utility shifting for piers, stations and widening moved mains and cables, sometimes more than once.

Pune was in the first list of cities picked for the national Smart Cities Mission, and its smart road packages put fresh ducts and drains under the footpaths. On these construction projects the buried utilities may sit in a neat duct bank or detour around a station box. A new ground penetrating radar survey of the exact stretch is the only record to trust.

What does a survey in Pune cost?

Pune jobs are priced per metre, with a minimum order of ₹1,00,000 per project and large savings on long orders.

• ₹24 per metre for a standard plan scan
• ₹32 per metre with an L-section that plots depth along the route
• Minimum order: ₹1,00,000 for each project
• Whole-order discount: 25% above 100 km, 40% above 500 km, 50% above 1,000 km
• GST is extra

A 3.5 km L-section of a ward road costs ₹1,12,000. A 15 km standard scan of a resurfacing package costs ₹3,60,000. A Mezux team member works from home in Pune, so the first radar pass follows within one working day of approval and is often the same day. Any travel cost, if applicable, is listed in the written quote.

What survey control suits PMC sewer and riverside work?

Levels tied to a PMC benchmark, carried along the road by our own surveyors. The hardest Pune jobs are often sewers near the Mula and Mutha, where gravity lines must keep their fall into old trunk mains. One visit gives an invert at each manhole, a crown level for each crossing service and the road surface between them. On open bridge approaches, DGPS positioning around Pune sets control quickly. In the narrow lanes of the old peths, the total station surveying team runs a traverse instead.

Whose engineers run GPR on PMC roads, and how is a job booked?

Engineers employed by Mezux Touch, using radars bought by Mezux Touch. The firm has offered GPR services since 2003 and now fields 58 GPR systems, with more than 1.5 lakh km surveyed. It holds ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 certificates, and no Pune shift is passed to anyone else. Work orders have come from PMC itself, and also from the contractors, consultants and line owners who dig its roads.

For PMC utility mapping, tell the Mezux team which ward office, which road and the date digging has to wrap up, and we will price your Pune job in writing.

Frequently asked questions

Is a June to September scan in Pune worth doing?

It can, between heavy spells, but wet ground reduces radar depth and digging is restricted then. Most clients scan from October to March.

Does a PMC road-cutting file need your drawing?

That is for the corporation to say. Our drawing shows your trench line checked against the utility lines under it.

Do you also handle permissions for long routes?

Our part is the scan. Permissions for longer routes are covered under RoW permission in Pune.

Can radar see through Pune's rock?

Through weathered basalt and murum, often well. Hard rock reflects strongly, and the data collected over rock cuts shows services clearly.

Do you work in the merged villages?

Yes. Paperwork is sparse in those areas, so the scanned band is wider, extra trial pits are proposed and the utility maps flag every unconfirmed line.

How long after scanning is the PMC drawing issued?

Usually within days of scanning for a few kilometres; long packages are issued in parts.

Written by Saniya Parveen · Technically reviewed by Rahul Rai · Updated 8 November 2026