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.
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.
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.
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’.
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation pegs total investment at Rs 3 lakh crore. Longest among these projects is Nagpur-Goa highway, or Shaktipeeth 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.
Piyush was about celebration—of life, of people, of stories. He believed that what we create can shape popular culture, can make people feel proud of who they are.
Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
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