This story is from November 13, 2016

Samruddhi highway via Alephata a possible option for government

Samruddhi highway via Alephata a possible option for government
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NASHIK: The state government is considering another route for the Nashik-Nagpur highway that is likely to via Alephata, Ahmednagar and then to Aurangabad.
This comes in the backdrop of heavy opposition from Nashik farmers against Samruddhi or the Nashik-Nagpur highway. A senior project official said that the basic advantage of the new route is that barring hilly areas, where some additional construction routes will be needed, the rest of the work can easily be done.

The state has not given up its earlier plans of mapping the Nagpur-Mumbai high speed corridor through the Igatpuri to Sinnar to Kopargaon route that will pass through the division’s Nashik and Ahmednagar districts. However, it is also considering that the route between Kalyan and Ale Phata that reaches Ahmednagar to connect Aurangabad.
“We have to develop the stretch between Kalyan and Alephata as the traffic towards Ahmednagar from Mumbai is on the rise. While the Mumbai, Ghoti, Sinnar, Aurangabad route measures 335km, the Mumbai, Kalya, Alephata, Ahmednagar, Aurangabad route is 366 km and is not that big a change. The route beyond Aurangabad can be taken up as planned under the high speed corridor of the Samruddhi project as there are no problems in this route,” a senior Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) official said.
The officer added that a major hurdle in the project would be to tide over Kalyan city. “But, there are ways to help the government by pass the present chaos to carve out the corridor. The mounting pressure in Nashik over the handing over the land to the people in the current land pool project, or even outright land sale to the government, could force the state to think on alternative means seriously,” the officer said.
An official from the Nashik revenue office, however, said that they had no such development on record from the government. “There is nothing that we have received from the state. Nobody expected the government could even think of the high speed corridor and today we have acquired the land in over 50% of the areas till the Nashik revenue division boundaries. We hope that everything will pass off smoothly for the proposed project,” the officer said.
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