Govt to launch Sea plane service from Nagpur to Shirdi

Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said a sea place service will be soon launched from Ambajhari lake here to Shirdi via Anand Sagar Lake in Shegaon.

The sea plane will fly in the morning and return the same day. The sea plane has been launched to benefit the people in and around Nagpur who visit these two pilgrim sites, Gadkari said at a function here There is a shrine of Sai Baba in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra while in Shegaon there is 'Gajanan Maharaj Samadhi Mandir'. 

Gadkari along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis performed 'bhoomipoojan' of network of cement concrete roads here.

The two BJP leaders vowed to make Maharashtra's second capital a top city in the country with number of development works. Fadnavis said, “These cement concrete roads will last for at least 50 years.” The cement roads worth Rs 1,000 crores are being constructed in the city.