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The 157-km Maharashtra stretch of the Mumbai-Vadodara Expressway will be opened to traffic by August 31, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said on Sunday, June 28, after reviewing the project's progress.
Fadnavis said five of the seven construction packages on the stretch have been completed and are ready for traffic, while the remaining two are on track to be finished by August.
"The entire stretch in Maharashtra is planned to be opened for traffic by August 31, 2026," he said in a post on X.
The Maharashtra section, being developed at a cost of about ₹24,000 crore, is part of the nearly 1,400-km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, an eight-lane access-controlled highway connecting Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Once operational, the expressway is expected to reduce travel time between Vadodara and Mumbai from more than eight hours to about four hours. It will also improve cargo movement to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA), ease congestion on the Thane, Bhiwandi and Ghodbunder routes, and strengthen connectivity between industrial hubs in north and western India.
Calling the project a major infrastructure milestone, Fadnavis said it would "serve as a crucial milestone in connecting the national capital Delhi and the economic capital Mumbai via a faster and more modern expressway."
Fadnavis said five of the seven construction packages on the stretch have been completed and are ready for traffic, while the remaining two are on track to be finished by August.
"The entire stretch in Maharashtra is planned to be opened for traffic by August 31, 2026," he said in a post on X.
The Maharashtra section, being developed at a cost of about ₹24,000 crore, is part of the nearly 1,400-km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, an eight-lane access-controlled highway connecting Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Once operational, the expressway is expected to reduce travel time between Vadodara and Mumbai from more than eight hours to about four hours. It will also improve cargo movement to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA), ease congestion on the Thane, Bhiwandi and Ghodbunder routes, and strengthen connectivity between industrial hubs in north and western India.
Calling the project a major infrastructure milestone, Fadnavis said it would "serve as a crucial milestone in connecting the national capital Delhi and the economic capital Mumbai via a faster and more modern expressway."
