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The Maharashtra Cabinet Infrastructure Committee connected Tuesday (January 27, 2026) cleared a 35-km Metro task to link the Mumbai and Navi Mumbai planetary airports astatine a outgo of much than ₹22,000 crore.
The corridor volition person 20 stations, including six underground and 14 elevated stations. Land acquisition for the project, covering 30.7 hectares, is expected to outgo ₹388 crore, a merchandise from the Chief Minister's Office said.
The infrastructure committee, a high-powered ministerial body, approved the 35-km Metro Line 8 project, estimated to outgo ₹22,862 crore.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed that each onshore acquisition and approvals for the Metro task — from Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport to Navi Mumbai International Airport — beryllium done wrong six months, and the operation completed wrong 3 years of the approvals.
Of the full 35-km Metro line, 9.25 km volition beryllium underground - from Mumbai Airport Terminal 2 to Ghatkopar East - and 24.63 km volition beryllium an elevated section, stretching from Ghatkopar West to Navi Mumbai Airport Terminal 2.
Mr. Fadnavis besides instructed departments acrophobic to velocity up the hold of the Samruddhi Expressway connected Nagpur-Gondia and Bhandara-Gadchiroli routes and guarantee that projects bash not get delayed.
In presumption of the upcoming Kumbh Mela, the committee besides approved the Nashik metropolis ringing roadworthy project, spanning 66.15 km, astatine a outgo of ₹3,954 crore.
The sheet besides cleared the upgradation of the 85.76-km Navegaon More-Konsari-Mulchera-Hedri-Surjagad road successful Gadchiroli territory into a four-lane cement factual roadworthy to facilitate mineral transportation.
