The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal on Thursday, September 23, said that the ambitious eight-lane coastal road being constructed in Mumbai will be completed by November 2023.
The civic body chief further stated that the project worth INR 12,700 crores has completed 40 per cent physical work of the coastal road project from Marine Drive to Worli, including a one-km-long tunnel.
BMC’s Mumbai Coatal Road Project.40% completed including 1 tunnel upto 1km under sea.https://t.co/FwZIwg1IN3
— Iqbal Singh Chahal (@IqbalSinghChah2) September 23, 2021
The BMC commissioner further informed that the work for Mumbai Coastal Road is going on 24x7 in three shifts and will be completed by November 2023.
Releasing a statement, he said that only 900 metres length of the tunnel remains now. This is the first of its kind under-sea tunnel of 40 feet diameter executed in our country.
Chahal said the Coastal Road will also include a 125-acre garden on the reclaimed land abutting the Coastal Road with 1852 underground car parking.
The project, which started in October 2018, was earlier targeted to be completed by 2022, but it got delayed due to the litigations.
The project work was stopped after the Bombay High Court in July 2019 quashed the Coastal Road Zone (CRZ) clearances granted to the project.
The work restarted after the Supreme Court in December last year stayed the Bombay High Court's order.