CM inaugurates projects in Navi Mum worth ₹6,100 cr
NAVI MUMBAI: Ahead of the enforcement of the model code of conduct from Saturday, chief minister Eknath Shinde on Friday inaugurated/ laid the foundation stone for a slew of projects in Navi Mumbai worth over ₹6,100 crore via videoconferencing. He also claimed that investments in Maharashtra had touched an all-time high and the Mumbai metropolitan region alone would achieve the 1-trillion-dollar economy target.
“The projects are all as per the need of the people, covering every aspect. I wanted to come and personally inaugurate them but there is paucity of time due to the code of conduct,” Shinde in an address that was telecast live on social media for Navi Mumbai residents.
“Navi Mumbai is the horsepower of Maharashtra’s growth engine,” he said, flanked by prominent leaders and officials including city MLAS Ganesh Naik, Manda Mhatre, Prashant Thakur and Mahesh Baldi, State Environment Impact Assessment Authority chairman and Shiv Sena leader Vijay Nahata, CIDCO vice chairman and managing director Vijay Singhal and municipal commissioner Rajesh Narvekar.
The chief minister inaugurated/ laid the foundation stone for 30 NMMC projects worth ₹1,129 crore and five CIDCO projects worth ₹5,000 crore.
NMMC projects inaugurated by Shinde included the Ghansoli-airoli creek bridge, CCTV network with a command centre, schools, urban health posts, fire stations, libraries, senior citizen care centres and ward offices. Projects for which foundation stones he laid the foundation stone included the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj memorial and equestrian statue and the Amrut 2.0 scheme.
As regards CIDCO projects, Shinde laid the foundation stone for a bridge connecting the Mumbai-pune expressway with the Navi Mumbai international airport, a link road between Kharghar and Turbhe and the Uran coastal road. He also commissioned a passenger water transport terminal at Nerul and a Bhumiputra Bhavan in Ulwe, which he said would be named after DB Patil as per demands of locals. He said the Mumbai metropolitan region alone has the potential to become a 1-trilliondollar economy, so as to fulfill prime minister Narendra Modi’s goal of making India the third largest economy in the world.