Mumbai-Nagpur Super Expressway: Shirdi-Nasik stretch open, Mumbai to be linked by… | Photo: Twitter
The Phase-II of Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway or the ‘Hindu HridaySamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg’ has been accomplished. The 80 km stretch from Shirdi in Ahmednagar district to Nashik’s Igatpuri is now open. This implies that 600 kms of the 701-km lengthy expressway is now in operation.
The Mumbai-Nagpur Super Expressway is an enormous enhance for twenty-four districts of Maharashtra within the Vidarbha, Marathwada and Khandesh areas. The expressway is constructed at a price of roughly Rs 55,000 crore. It spans 10 districts and enhances highway connectivity to 14 extra Maharashtra districts.
As a significant financial pipeline, it hyperlinks main infrastructure initiatives like Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority, and tourism and non secular locations like Ajanta-Ellora caves, Lonar Lake, Shiri, Verul amongst others. .
With Nagpur-Shirdi (520 km) and Shirdi-Igatpuri (80 km) operational, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is focusing on completion of the Phase-III Igatpuri-Mumbai 101-km stretch by the top of 2023. With the completion of the freeway, Mumbai to Nagpur journey time can be reduce to eight hours from 16 hours.
(Inputs from IANS)
