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The Maharashtra Cabinet connected Saturday (January 17, 2026) extended toll alleviation hold for electrical vehicles astatine Atal Setu by different twelvemonth and cleared a slew of decisions related to infrastructure and municipality transport, a time aft the BJP-led Mahayuti scored a decisive triumph successful the civic polls.
The cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, besides okayed the revised outgo and the State's stock for the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP-2), aimed astatine improving suburban obstruction and municipality mobility infrastructure.
It besides waived the premium for a crippled allotted astatine Ulwe successful Navi Mumbai to the Tirupati Devasthanam for the operation of the Padmavati Devi temple.
The furniture cleared the restructuring of 1,901 posts successful the Directorate of Economics and Statistics and approved renaming it arsenic the Commissionerate of Economics and Statistics.
Revised staffing patterns were besides approved for territory readying committees, divisional commissioner offices, and peculiar improvement programmes, according to an authoritative statement.
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In a alleviation to commuters, toll concession connected the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Shivdi-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu was extended for different year.
Under the PM e-Drive scheme, the Council of Ministers approved a nonstop outgo mechanics for the procurement of 1,000 electrical buses for Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal.
Payments volition beryllium made done nonstop debit mandates from Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporations to the acrophobic companies, according to the statement.
To beforehand cultivation exports, the authorities cleared the constitution of a multi-modal hub and terminal marketplace for fruits and vegetables astatine Bapgaon successful Thane district.
About 7.96 hectares of onshore volition beryllium provided to the State Agricultural Marketing Corporation for facilities, including vapour vigor treatment, irradiation, packaging and acold storage.
The furniture besides green-lighted the Bembla stream task successful Yavatmal territory for ₹4,775 crore, which volition bring 52,423 hectares of onshore successful 5 talukas nether irrigation. The rehabilitation contented of Dhamak colony successful Amravati territory was besides resolved.
In a large lodging initiative, the furniture approved the Mumbai Police Housing Township project, nether which 45,000 houses volition beryllium built for constabulary officers and unit successful Mumbai metropolis and suburbs.
Other approvals see the mounting up of the Maharashtra Agency for Holistic International Mobility and Advancements (MAHIMA) to assistance skilled younker entree overseas occupation opportunities done coordinated grooming and placement support.
A onshore parcel successful Panvel (West) volition beryllium allotted to the Annasaheb Patil Backward Class Development Corporation for the operation of its office and a multi-purpose building, the connection said.
