Overview

• India’s commerce ministry approved a 99-year lease of 53.17 acres (215,189 sq m) of salt land in Thane for ₹12.89 crore, enabling construction of the Dahisar–Bhayandar Link Road.
• The land has been handed to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, which is building the 60‑metre corridor to connect the Coastal Road to Mira Road at Subhash Chandra Bose Maidan and onward toward Vasai–Virar.
• The project cost is pegged at about ₹3,000 crore, with BMC footing the bill; Larsen & Toubro is named as the contractor, with Hindustan Times reporting it won a ₹3,304 crore tender earlier.
• Officials target completion in roughly three years, and Transport Minister Pratap Sarnaik says the Nariman Point–Mira Bhayandar trip could take around 30 minutes once the corridor opens.
• After fishermen in Uttan opposed an earlier shoreline plan, the route was revised inland, and the ministry’s letter restricts the transferred land to DBLR use and assigns legal liabilities to the transferee agency.