BMC deploys movable crane to expedite assembling work of Gokhale bridge girder

Civic officials maintained that this crane has been deployed to expedite the ongoing work.

“This crane has a capacity of lifting a heavy payload and is movable as well. This will enable us to pace up the assembling works which we have started and we are eyeing to complete the assembling by end of this month, soon after which the process of launching will begin,” said an official.

The fabrication work of the steel structure was being carried out in a workshop in Ambala. However, the process got delayed by few weeks due to heavy waterlogging that had affected north India last month. Owing to the waterlogging, the workshop where assembling works were being carried out was shut temporarily.

Civic officials said the crane is being deployed to make up the time that has been lost since the BMC has kept a Diwali deadline for starting one of the arms of this bridge. A primary east-west connector at Andheri in the western suburbs, the Gokhale bridge was shut down last November, owing to poor structural stability.