Mumbai, May 12 (PTI): Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday announced in a tweet that the proposed Mumbai coastal road project has received the final approval from the central government.
He said, “This coastal road will ease the congestion on Western Expressway and give a faster and smoother ride to Mumbaikars. The UPA government at centre and the Congress-NCP government in the state were just talking about it for 15 years but in 2 years we got all approvals to build the road.”
Fadnavis thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and minister for environment and forests Anil Dave for the final approval.
The Rs 12,000-crore project promises to ease the travel woes of Mumbaikars along the 35.6-km stretch between Nariman Point in south Mumbai and Kandivali in the western suburbs.
The four-lane project will have a total of 10 interchanges along the way and is likely to take four years to complete, officials said.