10 Oct :The Union Minister of Shipping, Road Transport and Highways, Thiru T.R. Baalu has approved a sum of Rs. 120.87 crore for road improvement works in the state of Maharashtra under the Central Road Fund Scheme. This amount would be spent on 34 different stretches of State Highways (SHs) and Major District Roads (MDRs) in various districts of the State.
Some of the major projects out of these 34 projects are:
• An amount of Rs. 1250 lakh has been approved for road improvement work on the stretches of SH-30 and SH-25 in the district of Nasik.
• An amount of Rs. 800 lakh has been approved for improving stretches on SH-10 and MDR-12 in Pune district.
• An amount of Rs.770 lakh has been approved for stretches on SH-141 and also for construction of bridge at Tal Akkalkot in the district of Solapur .
• An amount of Rs. 750 lakh has been approved for improvements works on MDR-71 in the district of Nanded.
• An amount of Rs. 750 lakh has been approved in the district of Ahmednagar for improvement on stretches on NH-50 and SH-45.
• An amount of Rs. 535 lakh has been approved for road improvement works on MDR-25, SH-75 and SH-61 in Satara district.
• An amount of Rs. 500 lakh has been approved for road improvements works on SH-220 in Parbhani.
• An amount of Rs. 500 lakh has been approved for stretches on SH-154 in Osmanabad district.
• An amount of Rs. 500 lakh has been approved for improving MDR-34A in Dhule.
• An amount of Rs. 500 lakh has been approved for improvement on stretches of SH-204 in Akola district.
• An amount of Rs. 475 lakh has been approved for improvement on Aurangabad-Edlabad road in Jalgaon district.
• An amount of Rs. 495 lakh has been approved for carrying out improvement works on SH-148 and SH-47 in Aurangabad district.
• An amount of Rs. 425 lakh has been approved for improvement works on SH-219 in Hingoli.
The other Districts where the road improvement works have been sanctioned include Beed, Wardha, Washim, Jalna, Buldana, Raigad Sangali, Latur, Nagpur, Sindhdurg, Amravati and Ratnagiri.
It may be recalled that an amount of Rs. 176.37 Crore was sanctioned early last month also under CRF for carrying out road improvement works in Maharashtra.