The Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde, announced a Rs.2648 crore master plan for the improvement of urban infrastructure in Mumbai. Called Mumbai Urban Infrastructure Project (MUIP), the project aims to improve the road network in Mumbai. Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) would be implementing the project.

Work on the MUIP is expected to commence in October 2003. The first phase, costing Rs.1,980 crore, would be completed by 2006. In the first phase altogether seven elevated roads, 36 flyovers, 25 pedestrian and 10 vehicular subways would be constructed. MMRDA also plans to convert the eastern express between Thane and Chhattrapati Shivaji Terminus into a freeway.

Project work worth Rs.1,049 crore would be taken up in the eastern suburbs while Rs.501 crore would be deployed in the western suburbs. Another Rs.430 crore would be spent in the island city. An estimated 35,000 families would be affected by the project, and their rehabilitation forms an integral part of the project.

Phase I of the project would be financed as under:

It may be mentioned that MUIP is being proposed despite the ongoing Mumbai Urban Transport Project, since the latter is predominantly a railway improvement project that does not address certain transport infrastructure needs of Mumbai.