The MSRDC is currently in the process of preparing the detailed project report for the project. According to the amendment, farmers who will give their land for development would be made an equal partner in the project and a portion of the developed land would be returned to farmers after the completion of the project.62 per cent through forest land and it becomes very essential for us to make farmers believe in the land-pooling scheme. It is expected to reduce the travel time between Mumbai and Nagpur to 10 hours from the current 15-17 hours. “The farming community is also demanding cash in exchange of their land or immediate handing over of developed land in exchange of their land, which is not practically feasible,” added the MSRDC official.” However, Radheshyam Mopalwar, managing director, MSRDC, said, “Everything is on track and it will take time while we take all the stakeholders into confidence. The farmers can also opt for cash in exchange for their land, and the provision for opting cash is already there in the Maharashtra Highways Act.
However, “majority of the farmers whose land will be acquired for the Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway do not agree with waiting till the project gets completed to get back developed land in exchange of their land,” said an MSRDC official involved in the process of land pooling for the project. The state government has already sanctioned Rs 12,000 crore, with a break up of Rs 500 crore each for development of a total 24 townships with facilities like Wi-Fi, IT hubs with solar panels along the Expressway. It is essential for the government to develop trust in the farmers. The corridor will pass through 350 villages from 27 talukas where non-cultivable landowners will get developed plot of 25 per cent of the area given up by them..In what could derail the schedule for the ambitious project of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s proposed 740-km-long Super Expressway project, connecting Mumbai and Nagpur, the Maharashtra State Roa In what could derail the schedule for the ambitious project of chief minister Devendra Fadnavis’s proposed 740-km-long Super Expressway project, connecting Mumbai and Nagpur, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) China shower niche Manufacturers has developed cold feet on land acquisition for the project. Sudhir Paliwal, convenor, Vidarbha environment action group, said,
