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Balewadi, Pune — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Balewadi is a residential suburb of Pune, built around the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex on the Western Metropolitan Corridor.
About Balewadi
Where to stay in Balewadi
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
The Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex sets the terms of a stay in Balewadi. Rooms gather along the roads that feed the stadium gates and the Western Metropolitan Corridor beside them, since this suburb was laid out for arenas and offices rather than grown around a market square the way older parts of Pune were. Fixture weeks tighten it.
A base out here suits you if a session at the complex, or a slow morning near the R. K. Laxman Museum, matters more than stepping straight into the old city.
About Balewadi
What are the main landmarks in Balewadi?
Balewadi carries one address that matters well beyond the suburb. The Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex holds the stadium, the athletics track and the indoor halls that carried the National Games of 1994, the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games, and the second edition of the Khelo India Youth Games from 9 January 2019. The R. K. Laxman Museum makes the quieter stop, given over to the cartoonist whose name it takes.
Elsewhere it is housing and approach road.
What is the history of Balewadi?
Sport wrote Balewadi's modern record. The Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex opened the suburb to the country when the National Games arrived in 1994, and the ground kept returning to that role: the Commonwealth Youth Games followed in 2008, and the second edition of the Khelo India Youth Games began there on 9 January 2019. Around those events the Western Metropolitan Corridor took shape, and Balewadi settled into its role as a residential suburb of Pune with a national stadium at its centre.
Where is Balewadi?
Balewadi spreads along the Western Metropolitan Corridor on Pune's western side, ground given over to housing blocks and the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex.
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Updated September 2026