Nagpur To Pune In 8 Hours: Gadkari Announces 268-km Greenfield Alignment Connecting Pune And Aurangabad To Samruddhi Expressway

Travel time between Nagpur and Pune is set to reduce to 8 hour, via a proposed greenfield expressway between Pune and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (formerly Aurangabad) to the soon-to-be inaugurated Nagpur-Mumbai Expressway (officially known as Hinduhriday Samrat Samruddhi Mahamarg).

The 701-km long Samruddhi Expressway will connect 10 districts (Nagpur, Wardha, Amravati, Washim, Buldhana, Jalna, Aurangabad, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Thane), 26 talukas, and 392 villages of the state. When fully operational, the expressway will reduce the travel time between Nagpur and Mumbai by half, from 16 to eight hours.

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday announced that NHAI will build 268-km greenfield expressway linking Pune-Ahmednagar- Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (formerly Aurangabad) to further improve connectivity to Nagpur.

hhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar (formerly Aurangabad).

Due to the traffic in urban centres and bad roads in patches along the current road network, it takes 14-16 hours to cover the distance of 716 km between Nagpur and Pune.

The proposed highway will start from the Pune-Bengaluru highway intersection with Pune's under construction ring road, and will connect to the Samruddhi Expressway at C