Citizens, environmental activists, and nature lovers have opposed the authorities for allowing the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to finalise Durga hill in the Nigdi area of Pimpri-Chinchwad for setting up its X-band Doppler weather radar for Pune district. Durga Devi hill is the only hill in Pimpri-Chinchwad where thousands of people go for a morning walk every day to breathe clean air.

Two hundred citizens signed a letter and lodged complaints with various authorities, including the police commissioner of Pimpri-Chinchwad, the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone), Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation, and Zone A authorities of the PCMC, demanding that the IMD's radar project should not be allowed at any cost.