Jalna-Nanded Expressway


The Jalna-Nanded Expressway is a link road greenfield project that connects the largest cities of Marathwada to Mumbai-Nagpur Expressway, which is also officially known as Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg. Proposed as 6-lane wide, this segment will reduce the road distance between Jalna and Nanded from 226 kilometres to 179 kilometres and bring down travel time between Nanded and Mumbai from 12 hours to around 6 hours.

Route Alignment

The Jalna-Nanded Expressway will travel through Jalna, Parbhani, and Nanded districts directly. The 179-kilometre Jalna-Nanded segment passes through 87 villages. Around 93.52 kilometres of this segment passes through four tehsils in Parbhani, while 66.46 kilometres passes through three tehsils of Jalna and 19.82 kilometres passes through one tehsil in Nanded.

Cities &; Towns

Below are the lists of cities/towns through which the Jalna-Nanded Expressway will connect:

Construction

invited RFQ applications for the expressway’s civil construction in April 2023. Here’s a list of civil packages included within the RFQ document:
Sr. No.PackageLength in kmContractor
1.JNE-1 : 0.000 to 36.0936.09APCO Infratech is lowest bidder
2.JNE-2 : 36.09 to 66.5530.46APCO Infratech is lowest bidder
3.JNE-3 : 66.55 to 98.9932.44Montecarlo is lowest bidder
4.JNE-4 : 98.99 to 127.8428.85PNC Infratech is lowest bidder
5.JNE-5 : 127.84 to 160.0332.19Montecarlo is lowest bidder
6.JNE-6 : 160.03 to 179.85 24.3Roadway Solutions is lowest bidder

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