The has announced Rs 500 crore to acquire land along the coastal belt ofMaharashtra, betweenRevasin Raigad and Redi in Sindhudurg, for theMumbai-Goa coastal highway project.
A tender for a four-lane bridge over Dharamtar creek, costing around Rs 900 crore, was floated, finance minister Ajit Pawar revealed in his budget speech
The statesBalasaheb Thackeraymemorial prosperity corridor between Mumbai and Nagpur will be extended from Nagpur to Bhandara-Gondia and Nagpur to Gadchiroli. This will facilitate a fastest approach to tiger safaris in the jungles of Vidarbha. Around 77% work of this highway has been completed. Necessary funds will be provided for land acquisition of Jalna-Nanded Expressway, he added.
If all goes as planned, by 2025 Mumbaikars will be able to take a 500km scenic Marine highway along Konkan beaches and forts. In an earlier budget the Thackeray government had announced Rs 3,500 crore to develop the single-lane state highway (MSH4), with 30km of missing bridges over creeks and rivers, into a coastal highway on the lines of the pacific coast highway in US.