Butibori-Yavatmal 4-lane cement road almost ready

Nagpur: Travelling to Yavatmal district is now no longer a pain for Nagpurians. National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has almost completed the cementing and four-laning of Butibori-Tuljapur national highway near the border of Marathwada and now you can travel as smoothly as on Amravati road. You will have to pay toll thrice for travelling to Mahagaon (between Arni and Umarkhed).
NHAI regional officer Naresh Wadetwar said there were three packages of the highway in Vidarbha: Butibori-Wardha, Wardha-Yavatmal and Yavatmal-Mahagaon (towards Nanded before Umarkhed).“The Wardha-Yavatmal road was completed a year before time. Butibori-Wardha road has only two small incomplete patches that will be over by October. Yavatmal-Mahagaon (via Arni) road is also ready barring a 2-km patch towards Mahagaon end near Hiwara Sangam village,” he added.
Wadetwar further said two patches remained on Butibori-Wardha stretch. “One is a 400-metre patch in Asola village, some 5km from Butibori and another is a railway overbridge (ROB) on Wardha bypass road. Asola residents had moved court against land acquisition. We have recently won the case and now work on the small elevated portion will begin soon. Permission from Indian Railways was received recently for the ROB. Both works will take around four months,” he added.
For Nagpurians, absolute smooth ride to Pusad will start when the flyover at Butibori is completed in February 2021. At present, it is a traffic bottleneck. It is, however, not a part of the Butibori-Tuljapur highway.
According to NHAI officer Satish Janwe, the length of Butibori-Wardha package is 59km and cost is Rs1,065 crore. “Work had started on it in December 2017. The scheduled date of completion was May 2020. It is now 98.5% complete,” he told TOI.
The Wardha-Yavatmal road is 65-km-long and costs Rs1,043 crore. “Work on it started in February 2018 and was over in August 2019 against scheduled completion of August 2020,” said Janwe.
The Yavatmal-Mahagaon road is 80-km-long and costs Rs1,160 crore. Work on it started in February 2018 and was scheduled to be completed by August 2020. It is now 98.5% complete. Yavatmal district administration is not handing over land of Hiwara Sangam village as residents have moved the court. The court has, however, not imposed any stay. Revenue officials prefer to wait till court order.
INFOGX
Nagpur-Mahalgaon (Yavatmal) Road
Length | 204.31km
Total cost | Rs3,269.47 crore
Packages | 3
Toll Plazas | 3
Status | Over 98% complete
Full completion date | October 2020