Maharashtra’s most delayed project, the CSMT-Uran railway line, cleared the final environmental hurdle of forest land handover on Saturday. The Railways have now got the “all green” to proceed with the engineering work.

mid-day had highlighted in February 2021 how the Belapur-Seawoods Uran suburban railway project, being implemented jointly by Central Railway and the City Industrial Development Corporation Limited (CIDCO), had been categorised as the most delayed railway project in Maharashtra with a time run-over of 216 months, which is 18 years,” as per the union government’s infrastructure and project monitoring division of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.