25 April 2022

Aurangabad-Pune travel set to be a breeze

Soon, a new Rs 10,000 crore Aurangabad-Pune express way will reduce the travel time between the two cities to 1.15 hours as against four to five hours currently.

“The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has decided to build a new access-controlled express way from Aurangabad to Pune. The highway will cost Rs 10,000 crore.

There will be no turns and the vehicles could move at a speed of up to 140 km per hour. My next visit will be to carry out the ground breaking ceremony of this road,” said Union minister for road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari on Sunday.

He was speaking at the ground breaking ceremony of four highways worth ₹2,253 crore, including Aurangabad to Paithan under NHAI at Beed Bypass. He also performed digital inauguration of the four highway projects worth ₹3,317 crore from Aurangabad to Telwadi and three others under Solapur-Dhule highway.
Gadkari said the distance from Aurangabad to Pune is 225 km. This new road will reduce the travel time significantly: Aurangabad- Pune journey will take 1 hour and 15 minutes. The alignment from Beed to Ahmednagar to Paithan has been finalised.

Ethanol production from sugar factories is increasing. Gadkari suggested a meeting with manufacturers to produce vehicles that run on ethanol. Union minister of state for Railways Raosaheb Danve, State horticulture minister Sandipan Bhumare, minister of state Abdul Sattar, MLAS Haribhau Bagade, Atul Save, Sanjay Shirsat, Prashant Bamb, MLC Ambadas Danve, MLAs Narayan Kuche, Uday Singh Rajput, BJP city president Sanjay Kenekar, NHAI regional officer Rajiv Agarwal, project director Arvind Kale, PWD chief engineer Santosh Shelar were present on the occasion.