Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail (HSR) project in is likely to be completed within the next two months, officials said on Thursday.
The announcement was made following a joint meeting for land acquisition called by Konkan divisional commissioner (DC) Vilas Patil to take a review of all crucial infrastructure projects passing through Thane district but are held up due to delayed land acquisition.
It may be noted that Thane district has several crucial infrastructure projects cutting through it including the Mumbai-Vadodara national highway, dedicated railway freight corridor, Kalyan-Kasara additional lines and Samruddhi highway among few.
“These are crucial projects for the state and country and shouldn’t be delayed due to land acquisition. The administration should take adequate efforts and ensure all obstacles in their progress are cleared at the earliest,” said Patil while addressing the officials.
“The HSR project requires 79 hectares of land in Thane district of which 51 has been acquired and the rest which are in Bhiwandi and are in various stages of acquisition. The DC has directed us to expedite the acquisition and complete the process in the next two months. The acquisition process for other projects will also be hastened,” said Prashant Suryawanshi, land acquisition, Thane district.
Activists have been long complaining that schedules of few have been apparently delayed due to slow land acquisition and transfer by the administration. Last year, the Thane corporation had junked the transfer of a crucial part of land for constructing a tunnel on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail (HSR) route in Diva which was eventually cleared recently.
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