The much-awaited construction work on Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) underground tunnels is expected to start by mid-2022 by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC).
The officials said that the work on twin tunnels would take time. However, the project of connecting Western and Eastern Express Highways with two flyovers will kick off in the next two months.
Currently, the project is under an advanced stage of the tender, and the bids are under scrutiny. When the work will begin next year, the project will likely be ready by 2025. The initial total cost of the project is pegged at over ₹6,000 crores. However, the cost might go up since the project is at the tender stage for two years.
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The civic body has proposed 4.75-km-long tunnels that will run under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP). The tunnels will affect around 19.43 hectares of reserved forest area.
As per the BMC officials, the tunnels will be dug with tunnel boring machine (TBM) technology. In the coming months, they will be finalising the tenders for GMLR tunnels. The tenders right now are on an advanced stage, said P Velrasu, additional civic commissioner.
For the GMLR project, BMC has approached firms in Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong and other places while Chinese companies were barred from bidding for the project.
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