Overview

• The Public Works Department’s August 26 government resolution grants administrative approval of ₹20,787 crore—₹12,000 crore principal and ₹8,787 crore interest—for land acquisition.
• The greenfield, access-controlled corridor spans roughly 802–803 km from Paunar in Wardha to Patradevi in Sindhudurg, crossing 12 districts and about 370 villages.
• Officials say the corridor is intended to link major Shaktipeeth pilgrimage sites and cut Nagpur–Goa travel time from about 18–21 hours to around eight hours.
• The Kolhapur segment has been cancelled under Sections 3 and 15(2) of the Maharashtra Highway Act, 1955, with MSRDC tasked to propose alternative alignments after consultations with political leaders.
• Farmer groups and opposition leaders in Kolhapur continue to resist land acquisition for several thousand hectares of largely privately held farmland, and surveys in six talukas were scrapped last year due to protests.