Work on Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway has been impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic! The ambitious infra project, worth over Rs 55,000 crore, will now be ready for the public to use by May 2022 as against the earlier target of December 2021. Recently, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), Radheshyam Mopalwar was quoted in a PTI report saying that the maximum work was supposed to take place in the months of March to June, but the lockdown due to the novel coronavirus outbreak impacted construction this year. On 1 May 2021, the 520 km long stretch between Nagpur and Shirdi will be thrown open for vehicular movement. In December the same year, the stretch will be extended further to Bhiwandi on the outskirts of Mumbai, taking the length to 623 km.
