Gadkari announces projects to come up on Mumbai Port Trust land.

Noting the need to improve infrastructure in India’s financial hub Mumbai, Nitin Gadkari, Union minister for road transport, highways and shipping, recently announced projects to come at 1,800 acres under the Mumbai Port Trust along the eastern shore of the city.

The plan includes building a cruise terminal, waterways projects, a 500-room floating hotel to be anchored off the Raj Bhavan coast, three-to-four floating restaurants, a Ferris wheel on the lines of the London Eye and marinas and jetties to promote intra-city water transport in Mumbai.

'A panel under the former chairperson of Mumbai Port Trust Rani Jadhav will be set up to suggest how we can go about this project.'

He was speaking at the 142nd Foundation Day of the Mumbai Port Trust recently.

'I have asked the panel to give the report in three months.'The panel will comprise urban planners, landscape artists, transportation experts, director of the J J School of Art and Maharashtra urban development secretary, among others.

Having a market value of Rs. 75,000 crore, Gadkari said the Mumbai Port Trust land was a public property.



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