Nagpur: Union road transport, highways and shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said a sea place service will be soon launched from Ambajhari lake here 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 here. Gadkari along with State chief minister Devendra Fadnavis performed “bhoomipoojan” of network of cement concrete roads here.

The two BJP leaders vowed to make Maharashtra”s second capital a top city in the country with number of development works.