Konkan Expressway Tender

Scope The Public Works Department PWD has drafted a plan for construction of 400 km road connecting Mumbai to Sindhudurg via Raigad and Ratnagiri in Maharashtra. Once completed the project will cut Mumbai-Sindhudurg travel to three hours from the existing six to seven hours. The government had asked the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation MSRDC to prepare a detailed project report in 2020. The proposal was approved by the high-level infrastructure committee headed by the Maharashtra Chief Minister on 25 August 2021. The expressway will boost coastal development. The project to be called the Greenfield Konkan Expressway is estimated to cost Rs 70000 crore. The DPR is expected to be completed in two years. It will take another four years to complete the project which will require 4000 ha of land. The greenfield expressway is planned on the lines of the Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samrudhi Marg that will connect Nagpur with Mumbai.