Overview
- The government approved a state guarantee with a comfort clause for a Rs 37,013 crore HUDCO loan to fast‑track the 126.3‑km Virar–Alibaug corridor, which will now proceed on a BOT model linking key logistics hubs.
- MAHA ARC Limited will be wound up after the RBI refused it a licence, formally closing the inactive state asset reconstruction company set up in 2022.
- Healthcare moves include expanding Ayushman Bharat and MJPJAY to 2,399 treatments across 38 specialties, raising serious‑illness cover to ₹10 lakh, boosting field‑worker honoraria, creating an Urban Health Directorate, and regularising eligible NHM staff.
- Housing and sectoral reliefs include exemptions for 30,000 PMAY homes in Solapur and a 4% interest subvention on short‑term working‑capital loans for fishermen and fish farmers.
- Judicial and education steps include new courts at Ghodnadi and Paithan and five‑year annual support of Rs 7 crore for Nagpur’s Laxminarayan Institute of Technology, as analysts cast the package as a pre‑poll push after the SEC set December 2 elections.