The widening of the Mumbai-Goa highway (NH-66) has become a matter of concern for those living in the villages along both sides of the road. With construction work being carried out in patches, movement of vehicles has become extremely haphazard on the route.

Coupled with this, random speeding of vehicles is leading to a large number of accidents on the stretch. The reply to a Right To Information (RTI) query filed by a villager has revealed that there have been as many as 18 accidents in the past three months, in which six people have died. It also says that over the past year, 40 people have died in such accidents.