Land acquisition nearly done: Bureaucrats

Mumbai: The land acquisition for the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Mahamarg is almost complete, said state officials. The Super Communication Expressway is expected to be ready by the end of 2020.

“In the case of road works, the major concern is always a delay in land acquisition. However, in the case of this project, we have completed almost 95 per cent of land acquisition. There are some stretches left in Amravati, Aurangabad region for land acquisition. But we hope to sort that issue soon,” said a senior state official.

The expressway is expected to cut down the journey between Mumbai and Nagpur to only eight hours. Currently, it takes anywhere between 14 to 15 hours to complete a journey between the two cities.

According to officials, the development work has begun on several stretches of the 701-kilometre-long Samruddhi Mahamarg corridor.

One of the major highlights of the expressway project is that it is entirely greenfield in nature. A greenfield project is one which is built from scratch without removing any existing structure.

Total beneficiaries of the Samruddhi Mahamarg are 23,500 and the compensation given to landowners till date is Rs 6,600 crores The total required land is 8,311 hectares. Out of the 701 kilometres that is the total length of the project, construction of approximately 600 km will be completed in December 2020.