During the winter session of the state legislature on January 1, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde announced that the long-awaited Mumbai Coastal Road Project (MCRP) is anticipated to be finished by May 2024.
Responding to queries from opposition legislators Anil Parab and Satyajeet Tambe in the legislative council, CM Shinde stated that work is progressing at a rapid pace, with the road scheduled to open by May 31.
This 10.58-km-long high-speed corridor will link the Princess Street Flyover (Marine Drive) in South Mumbai to the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) at Worli through a network of arterial roads, underground tunnels, and traffic interchanges.
The project is being developed in four segments. As per BMC officials, in the initial segment between Priyadarshini Park and Baroda Palace, 83.82% of the work has been completed. Package-2, from Baroda Palace to Bandra-Worli Sea Link, is 69.46% complete, and the fourth package from Princess Street Flyover (Marine Drive) to Priyadarshini Park is 90.77% complete.
A significant feature of this project is the pair of tunnels beneath the Arabian Sea near Girgaon Chowpatty, making it India’s pioneering undersea tunnel system.
The 2.07-km twin tunnel system stretches from Priyadarshini Park to Chhoti Chowpatty at Marine Drive, near the iconic Chowpatty beach at Girgaum.
These twin tunnels were excavated using a Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) named Mavala, after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj’s Mountain warfare experts. With a diameter of 12.19 meters, the TBM Mavala is the largest tunnel-boring machine ever employed in India and was manufactured by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Co. Ltd. (CRCHI).
Upon completion, the initial phase of the coastal road, estimated at Rs 12,500 crore, will accelerate commuting between the suburbs and South Mumbai.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), responsible for executing the MCRP, has chosen four infrastructure firms to construct the northward extension of the Coastal road, connecting Versova in the western suburbs to Dahisar at the northernmost tip of Mumbai.
The civic body divided the 22.93 km six-lane Versova-Dahisar Link Road (VDLR) into six packages — A, B, C, D, E, and F — and invited tenders for all six packages collectively in August 2023. The project, costing Rs 16,621 crore, has a construction deadline of four years.
According to the BMC, APCO Infratech has been awarded the works for packages A and F, while J Kumar Infra projects in a joint venture with NCC Limited secured package B. Similarly, Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Ltd (MEIL) have been finalized for packages C and D, while Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has been chosen for package E.
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