MSRDC Bags SKOCH Award 2025 for Samruddhi Mahamarg Project Excellence.

Awards

In April 2025, the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Limited (MSRDC) was honoured with the prestigious SKOCH 2025 Award in the Gold category under the 'Infrastructure' segment. The award was presented in recognition of MSRDC’s successful implementation of its flagship project, the Hindu Hrudaysamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg.


      - Dr. Anil Kumar Gaikwad, Vice-Chairman and Managing Director (MD) of MSRDC, accepted the award at the 100th SKOCH Summit held at the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi, Delhi.

      - The expressway is a high-speed greenfield corridor that connects 392 villages across 26 talukas in 10 districts of Maharashtra.

      - The project has significantly reduced travel time between Nagpur and Mumbai, cutting it down from 16–18 hours to just 7–8 hours.

Main Point :-   (i) Instituted in 2003, the SKOCH Awards recognize outstanding achievements in governance, inclusive growth, technology excellence, corporate leadership, citizen service delivery, and capacity building.

      (ii) The awards are conferred annually by the SKOCH Group, a Gurgaon (Haryana)-based full-service consulting firm established in 1997.


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