Road Transport and Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari has said a sea plane service will be soon launched from Ambajhari lake to Shirdi via Anand Sagar Lake in Shegaon. The sea plane will fly in the morning and return the same day. The sea plane has been launched to benefit the people in and around Nagpur who visit these two pilgrim sites, Gadkari said at a function.

• There is a shrine of Sai Baba in Shirdi in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra while in Shegaon there is ‘Gajanan Maharaj Samadhi Mandir’.
• Gadkari along with Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis performed ‘bhoomi poojan’ of network of cement concrete roads.
• The Metro Rail work is also in full swing and by 2019, Nagpur will be a developed in to a global city.

 NAGPUR

• Nagpur is the winter capital and the third largest city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and largest city of central India.
• It is famous for the Nagpur Orange and is known as the “Orange City” for being a major trade centre of oranges cultivated in the region.
• Nagpur is also called the “Tiger Capital of India” as it connects many tiger reserves in India to the world.
• It is among the important cities for the information technology sector in Maharashtra.
• Nagpur is located in the centre of the country with the Zero Mile marker indicating the geographical centre of India.