40 pc work on Samruddhi Corridor completed, 623-km stretch to be operational by Dec 2021

FORTY per cent work on the ambitious Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg project has been completed and the 623-km Igatpuri-Nagpur stretch will be fully operational by December 2021.

This was informed by Radheshyam Mopalwar, managing director of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), in an interaction with reporters on Wednesday.

Mopalwar said, “The work is progressing very well despite Covid-19 as we were able to retain most of our labour force. We assured them that they will be fully taken care of. We sanitised all our roadside camps where they lived, and got their Covid-19 tests done… none was found to be positive for the disease. Currently, we have about 16,000 labourers working on the various sites.”