Kharghar sits on the Harbour Line (Kharghar railway station, about 65 minutes to CSMT) and is now also served by Navi Mumbai Metro Line 1 (Belapur-Pendhar, operational since Nov 2023), planned to extend to Taloja MIDC and the new international airport.

Road access runs via the Sion-Panvel and Mumbai-Pune Expressways, with a 1,780 m skywalk linking the station to the node.

Kharghar is developing into a Navi Mumbai education hub, hosting NIFT Mumbai, ITM Business School and Bharati Vidyapeeth's Dental College, alongside schools such as DAV International School, Ryan International, Radcliffe School and Harmony International School.

Kharghar's economy is shifting from purely residential toward commercial, anchored by CIDCO's planned Navi Mumbai Corporate Park (roughly 125 hectares) and proximity to Taloja's industrial estate/MIDC; Godrej Properties has leased CIDCO land in Kharghar for about Rs 717 crore.

Kharghar is flanked by the green Kharghar-Parsik hill ranges; CIDCO's Kharghar Hill Plateau (about 150 hectares at roughly 200 m elevation) is earmarked for PPP-led tourism development, and the seasonal Pandavkada Falls, opposite Central Park, is a well-known monsoon attraction.

The roughly 290-acre Central Park - with an amphitheatre, botanical gardens, watersports and an 18-hole golf course - is the node's recreational anchor, alongside a growing base of malls, multiplexes and restaurants.

Developed end-to-end by CIDCO as a planned node of 45 sectors, Kharghar has wide arterial roads, an organised sector layout and a dedicated pedestrian skywalk (1,780 m) connecting the railway station to the town centre.

Municipal governance rests with Panvel Municipal Corporation (since 2016), while CIDCO continues as the node's planning and development authority.