| 1950 Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) begins operations. |
| 1956 Hindustan Antibiotics (Pimpri) begins operations |
| 1957 60 Industrial areas of Hadapsar, Pimpri, Chinchwad, Bhosari, etc. established |
| 1961 Panshet dam bursts and its waters flood the city, destroying most of the older |
| sections, giving a chance for modern town planning concepts to be put into use |
| 1970-80 Pune emerges as the engineering capital of the country especially in the |
| automotive sector with Telco, Bajaj, Kinetic, Bharat Forge, Alfa Laval, Thermax, |
| etc. expanding their infrastructure |
| 1970-80 Pune rapidly establishes itself as the Oxford of the East with educational |
| institutions especially in the field of higher education being set up throughout |
| the city |
| 1988 Pune Festival which coincides with Ganesh Chaturthi launched |
| 1989 Dehu Road-Katraj bypass is completed, reducing traffic congestion in the inner |
| city |
| 1990 Sports City comes into existence |
| 1990 Pune begins to attract foreign capital particularly in the information technology |
| and engineering industries; new businesses like floriculture and food |
| processing begin |
| to take root in and around the city |
| 1998 Work on the six-lane Pune-Mumbai Super expressway begins |
| 1998 Pune�s first flyover is inaugurated at Dashabhuja Ganapati Chowk, Kothrud |
| 1999 Municipal Commissioner Arun Bhatia removed from his post because his tough |
| stand on unauthorised constructions |
| 1999 The five-hundred acre Software development park developed by STPI is |
| inaugurated near Hinjawdi on the Pune-Mumbai bypass. IT giants like Wipro |
| and Infosys set up shop. |