At the very entry point of Maharashtra’s much-hyped MIHAN project, commuters are welcomed not by world-class infrastructure but by shameful negligence. Nearly half of the stretch has been barricaded and closed after repeated road cave-ins — the result of substandard work by the electricity department.
A few weeks ago, officials dug up the spot to repair an 11 kV underground power line. But instead of restoring it properly, the patch was filled carelessly. Within days, vehicles entering MIHAN triggered a collapse of the road. Following a complaint from Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), the department once again “repaired” it with a crude layer of concrete. Predictably, the surface sank again, leaving the patch worse than before. Despite repeated complaints, officials have turned a blind eye.
The pathetic barricading of this broken stretch is an insult to the very project the state projects as its pride. MIHAN is supposed to symbolize modernity and global standards, yet its entry point itself has become a symbol of poor planning and corruption.
This is not an isolated case. Cracks on the concrete road from Sonegaon police station to Chinchbhuwan bridge and the infamous sinking of the Butibori flyover have already exposed the rot in construction quality across Nagpur’s arterial roads. The MIHAN entry fiasco is only the latest example of the same story — cheap work, quick fixes, and no accountability.
If this is how the state treats its “ambitious projects,” then MIHAN’s promise risks sinking under the same cracks now visible at its gates.
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