State govt grants NOC to transfer of two highways from MMRDA to Mumbai, Thane civic bodies

Maharashtra government has issued a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) to initiate the handing over process of the Eastern Expressway Highway (EEH) and Western Express Highway (WEH) to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC).

This comes within days of municipal commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal urging the Bombay High Court on September 30 to make the BMC the sole planning authority for regular maintenance of the roads of Mumbai.

In an official letter dated September 30, the deputy secretary of the state government, Vijay Chaudhuri, stated that the government has no objection to the process of handing over and maintenance of these two arterial flyovers to the BMC and TMC by the MMRDA.