1 hour ago
1
Lok Sabha MP Shrikant Shinde, Mumbai Suburban Guardian Minister Ashish Shelar, and Mahendra Kalyankar, CEO of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), presented a acceptable of proposals for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) connected Friday (May 22, 2026). They said the portion would lend ₹1.7 lakh crore to Maharashtra’s system by 2047, driven by decentralisation, a 377-km metro network, and a lodging program that targets slum dwellers with 300 quadrate feet rehabilitation units.
Speaking astatine a sheet connected the expanding metropolis during The Hindu Maharashtra Infrastructure Conclave, Mr. Shinde said MMR has received astir ₹4 lakh crore successful funds. Data centres and logistics hubs successful Navi Mumbai, on with a larboard astatine Vadhavan, would make jobs and trim the unit connected Mumbai, helium added. The 377-km metro, helium pointed out, would beryllium the largest specified web successful the world.
Mr. Shinde besides said that Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC), Ambernath, and Ulhasnagar corporations person unified their roadworthy and h2o transport systems. A h2o metro and a roadworthy from Badlapur to Navi Mumbai are being developed, on with an access-controlled expressway that provides connectivity wrong 10 minutes. Water transport done 101 waterways is besides planned, the MP further said. He announced that a metro work for Thane would beryllium approved soon, portion enactment connected the Kalyan metro is already underway.
New BEST buses
Ashish Shelar, Guardian Minister for Mumbai suburbs, acknowledged that the 437 sq. km. country successful the metropolis has challenges that volition not beryllium resolved successful a abbreviated period. He said the BEST autobus service, a bequest of the city, had suffered owed to decisions of the erstwhile authorities led by Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray, which reduced the fleet. The existent medication has accrued funds for the proscription medication and allowed the section much operational space, helium said. A remapping of connectivity routes is successful progress, and much than 1,000 caller buses person been added to the BEST fleet, with the remainder to beryllium delivered successful 4 years.
Mahendra Kalyankar outlined the lodging and redevelopment initiatives successful the sprawling city. He said Mumbai is the lone metropolis successful the satellite to supply 300 sq. ft. rehabilitation houses for slum dwellers, with the people of 5 lakh specified houses to beryllium built by 2030, wherein 2.97 lakh person already been delivered. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is moving connected 39 rehabilitation projects connected its lands.
Dharavi redevelopment
On the Dharavi redevelopment project, Mr. Kalyankar said it volition beryllium a multi-modal task with metro connectivity and a accomplishment improvement component. The BMC has taken up the beautification of the Mithi river, and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), on with SRA, is processing a parkland astatine Ramabai Ambedkar tract successful Vikhroli utilizing a clump approach, helium added.
