The much-awaited Samruddhi Mahamarg — the biggest Expressway project of India — is going to be open to traffic partially from August 15, coinciding with the country’s 75 years of Independence.
The Samruddhi Corridor will connect Mumbai, the financial capital of India, to Nagpur, the nerve centre of Vidarbha region.
The Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg — as it is formally known — is one of the most ambitious road projects ever undertaken in Maharashtra and India.
The first phase of the project will connect Nagpur to the temple town of Shirdi.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have been involved in the execution of the project since the beginning.
