Overview

• The Cabinet approved ₹20,787 crore for planning and land acquisition of the 802-km Nagpur-Goa Shaktipeeth Expressway
• Once completed, the corridor will link 12 districts from Pavnar in Wardha to Patradevi in Sindhudurg and cut Nagpur-Goa travel time from 18 hours to eight hours
• MSRDC will implement the expressway with a ₹12,000 crore HUDCO loan to acquire nearly 7,500 hectares of farmland
• Ongoing resistance from farmers in Kolhapur and Sangli has led to partial realignments and calls for further stakeholder consultations
• The Finance Department cautioned that off-budget borrowing for the project could worsen Maharashtra’s already rising debt and interest burden