File photograph of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. , Photograph Credit score: PTI
Union Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday (December 13, 2025) identified that highway tasks price ₹1.50 lakh crore have been accredited for Maharashtra for 2026, and work for many of the tasks will begin in “the following three months”.
Throughout his go to to Vidhan Bhavan, the place the State legislature winter session is ongoing in Nagpur, BJP chief Mr. Gadkari briefed the media intimately in regards to the tasks accredited for Maharashtra.
Citing the tasks beneath Maharashtra State Infrastructure Improvement Company (MSIDC), Mr Gadkari stated, “The tasks price ₹27,000 crores are accredited for MSIDC. They’ll assemble a brand new Pune-Sambhajinagar expressway for ₹16,318 crore, ₹2,000 crore freeway repairs, and a flyover will probably be constructed connecting Pune-Ahilyanagar-Sambhajinagar, and a brand new expressway from Pune to Sambhajinagar will cut back the journey time. to 2 hours and from Sambhajinagar to Nagpur in two-and-a-half hours.
Minister of Street Transport and Highways has additionally accredited the ₹4,207 crore elevated freeway undertaking connecting Talegaon-Chakan-Shikrapur that may have two flyovers above the highway and a metro line above the flyover, and one other elevated highway is from Hadapsar to Yevat for ₹5,262 crores.
Nationwide Highways Authority of India (NHAI) can even undertake the Pune-Nashik-Khed expressway roadworks costing round ₹7,000 crores, as per Nagpur MP, Mr Gadkari, who visited the legislature complicated to attend the centenary celebration of the Vidhan Parishad.
“The tasks price ₹50,000 crore have been accredited for the Pune area,” stated Mr Gadkari, including a parallel expressway costing ₹15,000 crores will probably be constructed to the present Pune-Mumbai expressway to chop journey time between the 2 cities by one and a half hours.
Mr. Gadkari additionally said that the highway works for the Nagpur area, together with the Nagpur-Bhandara part for ₹2,000 crores and the highway connecting Challisgaon in Marathwada to Sambhajinagar for ₹2,800 crore.
“Within the Annual plan, ₹60,000 crores of labor is accredited, round ₹50,000 crores of labor is given to PWD of firms,” he added.
Printed – December 14, 2025 06:26 am IST