Gadkari: Mumbai-Pune-Bengaluru in 5.5 Hrs with New Expressways; ₹1.5L Cr for Maha

• Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced a second Mumbai-Pune Expressway, costing Rs 15,000 crore, to reduce travel time between the cities to 1.5 hours.
• A new Pune-Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Expressway, costing Rs 16,318 crore, will cut travel time to 2 hours.
• The new expressways aim to reduce Mumbai-Pune-Bengaluru travel time to 5.5 hours.
• Road works worth Rs 1.50 lakh crore have been approved for Maharashtra for 2026, with Rs 50,000 crore specifically for the Pune region.
• Construction for these projects is expected to begin in the next three months.

Why It Matters: New expressways will drastically cut travel times between Mumbai, Pune, and Bengaluru.