Nagpur Toll Plaza

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FASTagis a device that employs Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for making toll payments directly from the Prepaid Account linked to it. It is affixed on the windscreen of your vehicle and enables you to drive through toll plazas, without stopping for cash transactions.

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Sources revealed that the attack was the outcome of the fuming speech given by Raj Thackeray on Sunday evening. The speech appealed the MNS workers to stop paying at the toll booths. Sources also reported similar incidents at toll plaza offices in Hingna and Katol, however police could not confirm the reports.

Meanwhile MNS workers had allegedly vandalised the Katai Toll Naka in Dombivali in the Thane district in protest against poor road condition and illegal toll collection. Police had arrested 20 people and registered a case against them. The Shiv Sena too had attacked four toll booths in Kolhapur earlier in January.

As per the study, daily around 150,000 vehicles are expected to ply between Mumbai and Nashik using the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway by the end of 2025. The MSRDC has further also listed 23 categories of vehicles who are listed as VIP vehicles and they will be eligible for being exempted from paying toll using the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway also known as Hindu Hridaysamrat Balasaheb Thackerat Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg.

According to MSRDC, it is aiming to make the entire expressway between Mumbai and Nagpur operational by December 2022. However, it is also aiming to make the Nagpur to Aurangabad stretch operational by March or April and further by December the expressway will be made operational in phases. However, due to COVID lockdown there are chances there being a three months delay in making the entire expressway operational.

Officials said at least 70% of the civil construction work is completed on the Expressway, and in the first phase it will be made operational in phases possibly from the Nagpur end. On the Mumbai end, the Expressway will start from Shahpur district. According to MSRDC officials, the civil work will shortly be completed for Expressway but the supporting infrastructure like petrol pumps, food plaza, toilets etc are all being set up simultaneously.

Meanwhile, around 30% of daily passenger traffic travelling via flight and train may shift their travel mode to the road, once the 701-km-long Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway is ready for public use by 2022, revealed a report prepared by the MSRDC in 2018.

The report added that currently, more than 26,000 passengers travel between Mumbai and Nagpur daily via flight and train of which nearly 8,000 passengers may shift to the road. 87 more buses and 1,166 more cars are expected to run on the road due to the construction of the expressway, revealed the detailed project report (DPR) prepared for the project.

The police, during checking, recovered this huge amount of cash from Itaunja Toll Plaza. According to the news received from sources, police have recovered Rs 27,55,500 from Swift Dezire vehicle number UP 32 KM 5164 from Itaunja toll plaza.

Police is on high alert and has stepped up vigilance across the state since there are apprehensions of large amount of unaccounted cash being transported to fund elections and candidates. The Income Tax department has been informed, police said.

The Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg route also known as the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway will run through 392 villages, across 10 districts and reduce the traveling time to seven hours between Mumbai and Nagpur.

A 25 km stretch between Bharvir and Igatpuri on the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway opened for public in February 2024, mention media reports. After construction of this and the opening of the stretch, the Nagpur portion of the Samruddhi Mahamarg is complete.

Only the 78 km stretch till Amane, Thane remains now. MSRDC looks at opening the remaining this pending part by August 2024 with four out of the six lanes on the Khardi Bridge on Kasara Ghat only operational. All the six lanes will be open by November 2024, when the entire Samruddhi Mahamarg will be operational. According to an IE report, with the Samruddhi Mahamarg, the commuters can bypass the old Kasara Ghat with a speed of 120 km/hr.

The implementing agency, MSRDC, mentioned that due to the nationwide lockdown following the Coronavirus pandemic, construction of Mumbai to Nagpur expressway was impacted. Therefore, the Samruddhi Mahamarg route completion date was moved to December 2022, as against the earlier target of December 2021.

Phase-2 of the Samruddhi Mahamarg from Shirdi to Bharvir in Igatpuri Taluka, Nashik was inaugurated by Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde and deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on May 26, 2023. The phase-2 will operational for traffic starting next week.

The 701-km Samruddhi Mahamarg will pass through Nagpur-Wardha-Amravati-Washim-Buldhana-Jalna-Aurangabad-Nashik-Ahmednagar-Thane. Inter-connecting highways and feeder roads would be constructed to connect all important cities and tourist places along the Nagpur Mumbai expressway route. An additional fourteen districts namely Chandrapur, Bhandara, Gondia, Gadchiroli, Yavatmal, Akola, Hingoli, Parbhani, Nanded, Beed, Dhule, Jalgaon, Palghar and Raigad will be connected because of the Samruddhi Mahamarg.

The Samruddhi Mahamarg route is designed for speeds of up to 120 km per hour on flat and non-hilly terrain and 100 km per hour on hilly areas. This speed limit is for vehicles with eight passenger seats. For vehicles with passenger seats of more than eight, the capped speed limit is 100 km per hour on flat and non-hilly terrain and 80 km per hour on hilly areas. All heavy vehicles have to maintain speed of 80km per hour on all terrains.

The Mumbai Nagpur Expressway will have a total of 26 toll booths. The Samruddhi Mahamarg toll charges is based on the distance traveled. Once functional, the Mumbai Nagpur expressway project will cut short the travel time from Mumbai to Nagpur to six to seven hours from the current 15 hours.

To be built at an expense of Rs 55,000 crore, the project is developed in around 9,900 hectare. Over 10,000 hectare of land will be for developing the Krushi Samruddhi Nagar and 145 hectare of land will be used for amenities and facilities along the Samruddhi Mahamarg.

Around 24 townships are being planned along the Samruddhi Mahamarg route map, which will further boost economic development in some of the less-developed areas of the state. The Mumbai Nagpur Expressway/ Samruddhi Mahamarg will pass through the mountainous terrain of the Western Ghats, as well. This eight-laned Mumbai Nagpur Expressway, which will have six lanes and two additional service roads.

The land acquired for the Samruddhi Mahamarg project is under a pooling model, where farmers will get 30% of the developed land elsewhere. Apart from this, as part of the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway project, the farmers will also get Rs 50,000 per hectare for non-irrigated land and Rs 1 lakh every year for irrigated land, for the next 10 years.

MSRDC will also be the New Town Development Authority (NTDA) for Krushi Samruddhi Nagar that will be developed along the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway. The Maharashtra state government announced an extension of the Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg till Bhandara-Gondia and Gadchiroli that lie east and south east Nagpur. This is the second extension that the Samruddhi Mahamarg has got after the proposal of Jalna-Nanded extension .

According to media reports, the Samruddhi Mahamarg current status is that around 70% of the civil construction work is completed on the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway. MSRDC mentioned on the Samruddhi Expressway status that the civil work will be completed shortly for the Mumbai Nagpur Expressway and work on supporting infrastructure like petrol pumps, food plaza, toilets etc. are going on.

Mumbai Nagpur Expressway will be connected to the newly proposed 225 km Pune-Aurangabad Access Control Green Expressway and this will reduce time travel between the Pune and Nagpur. Additionally, other expressways that will be connected with Samruddhi Mahamarg route are

The information with respect to land acquired by direct purchase and land acquisition for the Samruddhi Mahamarg and the compensation paid to concerned farmers has been declared on the Samruddhi Mahamarg website at -details/.

At the Mumbai side of the Samruddhi Mahamarg, just before the expressway starts near Thane are new projects coming up. When the operations of the entire expressway begins, the prices in these areas are expected to surge mention realty experts.

There are many examples in history, proving how efficient connectivity can bring economic and infrastructure development, resulting in better living conditions in backward areas. The Mumbai Nagpur Expressway will pass through some of the less-developed areas of the state, which may benefit from the project. Moreover, the plan to develop skill-based industries along the Mumbai Nagpur expressway can prove advantageous for the local economy, which are so far dependent on agriculture and dairy farming. Shirdi, one of the religious towns in the state will now have faster connectivity from the big cities including Nagpur and Mumbai because of the Mumbai Nagpur expressway, which may boost its potential as a second home investment destination. For Nagpur, as well, the Nagpur Mumbai expressway may bring a new dawn for its real estate sector, which has not seen much traction due to lack of growth drivers in the city.

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