MMRDA to focus on road connecting Navi Mumbai airport with MTHL and Pune highway
MUMBAI: The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has now decided to focus on the second phase of the Virar-Alibaug multimodal corridor, which will connect the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) airport with the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL), Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), and the highways going to Pune and Goa.
The 47-km stretch of the corridor is planned from Chirner to Alibaug, of which an 18-km stretch has been taken up by t he Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) on a priority basis.
The MMRDA has planned the 126-km corridor to attract business in underdeveloped areas of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
Sanjay Khandare, additional commissioner of MMRDA, said, “In addition, the second phase will connect the highway connecting JNPT with Vadodara. The 18-km stretch will boost connectivity of the airport with Mumbai, and Pune and Goa.”
UPS Madan, commissioner of MMRDA, said that the affected-farmers will be asked to surrender their land, and in return, they will be given developed land (with incentive FSI) along the corridor.
Madan also informed that MMRDA had finished land survey and land titling work of the required land.