CM vows to make home town top city in country

With the elections of Nagpur Municipal Corporation months away, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday vowed to make Maharashtra’s second capital, Nagpur, a top city in the country with a slew of development projects in the city.

Fadnavis announced this while performing ‘bhoomipoojan’ for a network of cement concrete roads in Subhash Nagar in Nagpur. The Nagpur Municipal Corporation elections are due in early 2017.

Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari, who was also present at the foundation stone-laying ceremony, said that tar roads are not suitable for Nagpur and don't last long hence cement roads are being constructed by the Nagpur Improvement Trust and the NMC.

“With an aim to make Nagpur top class city in the country, we are starting work on making cement concrete roads worth Rs 1,000 crore in the city,” Fadnavis said. He added that cement concrete roads worth Rs 300 crore in Nagpur South-West Assembly constituency, which is represented by Fadnavis, will be ready in a year.

Fadnavis added that the work on Nagpur metro has commenced and that it will be completed by 2019. “The work on Nagpur Metro corridors is also in full swing and by 2019, Nagpur will be a developed in to a global city,” said Fadnavis. Road works to the tune of Rs 28 crore was already undertaken during the last two-and-half-year regime of BJP-SS, Fadnavis added.