Maharashtra authorities to spend Rs 6 lakh crore on state’s infrastructure

The Maharashtra authorities is planning for a significant overhaul of the state’s infrastructure — from airports and ports to expressways to railway networks — that’s estimated to price anyplace north of ‘5-6 lakh crore, however which might give the state a much-needed facelift. The Struggle Room, a brainchild of Devendra Fadnavis when he first took over as chief minister in 2014, is again in motion and this time there are grander plans.

A number of the new initiatives deliberate embody creating an Expressway grid comprising 6-8 lanes that connects all districts of the state. State authorities officers mentioned 9 new Expressways have been being deliberate, certainly one of which goes to be the Pune-Nashik eight-lane Expressway. The estimated price of those 9 expressways could possibly be round Rs 2.35 lakh crore.

The Struggle Room can be planning a Mumbai to Konkan six-lane Expressway that will originate from Pen close to Panvel to Sawantwadi in Sindhudurg, which is able to price round ‘80,000 crore. These concerned within the planning of the Mumbai-Konkan Expressway mentioned that as a substitute of the long-winding routes between Mumbai and Konkan presently obtainable, the brand new expressways could be straight roads reducing throughout all coastal districts.

The state can be planning to improve its tier-3 airports to tier-2 ones by upgrading their infrastructure like extending the runways. A number of the airports that will be undertaken for this upgradation could be those at Sangli, Amravati and Gondhia.

Eager to make sure sooner execution of those initiatives, the Maharashtra authorities has appointed IAS officer Radhyesham Mopalwar as Director Normal (Struggle Room-Infrastructure) in command of the Struggle Room. He’s identified for the speedy execution of initiatives just like the Samruddhi Mahamarg (Mumbai to Nagpur Tremendous Expressway).