Union road and highways minister Nitin Gadkari has tweeted that travel from Nagpur to Pune will be possible in just 8 hours soon.<br />'' <br />'' In a tweet, he said that the new proposed Pune-Aurangabad Green Expressway, will be connected at Aurangabad to Samruddhi highway.<br />'' <br />'' This highway will be built by National Highway Authority of India(NHAI) with entire new alignment. This will cut the travel time between Pune and Aurangabad to 2 hours 15 minutes and the travel time between Aurangabad and Nagpur will be cut to five and half hours. The first stretch of Samruddhi Expressway connecting Nagpur-Mumbai will be commissioned soon from Nagpur to Shirdi.<br />'' <br />'' The new proposed alignment provides connectivity from South India (Goa, Bangalore and other districts of Karnataka via Pune – Bangalore Expressway) to Pune, Aurangabad, Nagpur and further to Madhya Pradesh and Northern India.<br />'' <br />'' The proposed alignment has length of 268km including 39km length of proposed ring road around Pune City. proposed alignment starts at Pune – Bangalore Highway(Intersection with Pune Proposed Ring Road) and end point is at Samruddhi Expressway (Nagpur – Mumbai Expressway). The districts Pune, Ahmednagar, Beed and Aurangabad are covered under this alignment. The expressway will have 8 lanes and it can bear highest speed of 120 KM. per hour.