India, March 7 -- The state's budget announced by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Friday reinforced the Mahayuti government's infrastructure thrust, with plans to develop new urban centres in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as its population swells.

Notably, the raft of new infrastructure plans includes the development of a Fourth Mumbai, a new city near Vadhavan in Palghar, where the country's largest container port is being built.

The budget also announced plans to expand the underground road network in Mumbai and Pune, to ease traffic congestion.

Presenting the budget in the legislative assembly, Fadnavis said 70% of the state's population is expected to be living in cities in the next two decades, prompting the government ...