As work on NH 48 drags on, factory owners in Vasai-Virar count losses
Hindustan TimesMUMBAI: When Ravindra Raghuvanshi, 77, was looking to set up a vacuum packaging factory 15 years ago, he chose Vasai for two key reasons. As work on NH 48 drags on, factory owners in Vasai-Virar count losses “But now, when it takes me nearly four hours to cover the 28 kilometres, I wonder if it was the right decision,” said Raghuvanshi. NHAI began work on white topping the 121-km stretch of NH 48 between Dahisar and Achhad near the Gujarat border more than six months ago, in December 2023, by closing off one lane on either arm of the highway. “I have lost 25% business in the last six months and it’s becoming a very costly affair for small and medium enterprises like ours to run units in the Vasai-Virar belt,” said Raghuvanshi, president of Laghu Udyog Bharti, an organisation representing SMEs. NHAI has also failed to construct slopes at the end stretches where work is ongoing,” said Vithhal Chintaman, in-charge of highway police chowki at Chinchoti.
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