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TopicMumbai-Nagpur Expressway

Topic: Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway

How Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi e-way took shape with Fadnavis & Shinde taking turns in driver’s seat

The project, which promises to cut the 16-hour journey between the two cities in half, was Fadnavis’s pet project, conceived during his first term as CM from 2014 to 2019.

Chambal Ravines are now safe because of new roads. But Indians must learn how to drive

The Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana roads have opened up economic opportunities but they will be pointless if average Indian user doesn’t know how to use them.

Samruddhi Expressway will take development, connectivity to remotest parts of tribal Maharashtra

The Rs 55,000 crore Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway project will act as the biggest force multiplier for creating multiple growth engines in the drought-prone Vidarbha and Marathwada regions.

Delhi-Mumbai Expressway is impressive but Indians’ driving lanes apart

Seeing me drive on this 10-lane road in a powerful German-built convertible with the roof down, you could have said I was in the American north-east.

Shinde govt targets Dec 2023 finish for Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway, just ahead of state & LS polls

The first 520-km stretch of the 701-km expressway was opened to the public last December, but officials say the remaining 181-km distance is ‘most challenging’.

10 highways, 3,000 km: Maharashtra’s grand plan to connect almost every district in next 5 yrs

Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation pegs total investment at Rs 3 lakh crore. Longest among these projects is Nagpur-Goa highway, or Shaktipeeth expressway.

Fadnavis’ pet project that once sparked BJP-Sena credit war — all about Mumbai-Nagpur expressway

PM Modi will inaugurate first phase of 701-km Samruddhi Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway Sunday. The Rs 55,000-crore project was first announced when Devendra Fadnavis was Maharashtra CM.

BJP leaders sharing image of Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Mahamarg is actually a Bangkok highway

Several BJP leaders have shared a wrong image of the newly built Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi expressway ahead of its inauguration on 11 December.

For Mumbai makeover, Maharashtra asks for Rs 50,000 crore from 15th Finance Commission

It’s the state’s largest ever demand for Mumbai, through which it hopes to power infra projects in the city.

Farm hubs plan by Fadnavis along Mumbai-Nagpur corridor hit by land acquisition problems

The special purpose vehicle is going ahead with developing just three nodes for now, may take up four more once it gets consent for land pooling.

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Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.