MSRDC gets approval for 105-km eastern ring road project

The state Public Works Department (PWD) has granted permission to the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) to carry out a joint survey for the proposed 105-km eastern ring road, starting from the Urse toll plaza on the Pune-Mumbai expressway. MSRDC's sub-divisional engineer, Sandeep Patil informed that the stretch will pass through areas under Maval, Khed, Haveli, Daund and Purandar divisions before emerging on the Pune-Satara highway which is part of the Mumbai-Bengaluru national highway. Currently, the agency is surveying the western ring road and a second team is being set up to conduct the eastern ring road survey. The eastern ring road will pass through 46 villages of these tehsils and that the administration will have to acquire a total of about 1,585 hectares, including about 859 hectares of private land worth ₹5,000 crore. The proposed road would reduce traffic congestion significantly in Talegaon Dhabade and Chakan MIDC areas as heavy vehicles would get direct connectivity to state and national highways. Currently, these vehicles ply through towns and cities and are creating perennial traffic snarls in these industrial zones. Meanwhile, the MSRDC has completed land survey of 170 hectares of land that is required for purposed 68 km western ring road which, will pass through Maval, Mulshi, Haveli and Bhor.