BMC to begin work on Rs 20 crore Kurla flyover

In a bid to provide relief to pedestrians, the civic body has proposed construction of a 300-metre-long skywalk in the densely populated Kurla area.

The BMC’s data stated that the civic body had imposed a Rs 25,000 penalty on the contractor owing to the delay.

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to take up construction of its much-anticipated project of building a skywalk in Kurla, during the last quarter of this year. The work orders for this project were issued back in 2021 and the project has been in pipeline for nearly two years now.

In a bid to provide relief to pedestrians, the civic body has proposed construction of a 300-metre-long skywalk in the densely populated Kurla area which would connect Taximen’s Colony near the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) in Kurla (west) to Shree Krishna Chowk, near the station. The estimated cost of this project has been pegged around Rs 20 crore, and the project was expected to be completed within a 15-month deadline.

The work order for this project was issued in August, 2021, however the construction work is yet to take off. The proposal for this project was cleared by the civic standing committee two years back when the body of elected representatives was operational in the BMC. The BMC’s data also stated that the civic body had imposed a Rs 25,000 penalty on the contractor owing to the delay.

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Civic officials said that the construction work will start soon after the monsoon this year.“There are several underground utilities that fall in the alignment of the proposed skywalk. It took us some time to relocate the utilities due to which there has been a delay,” said an official.

Anil Galgali, who is following up with the project and sought the details of progress of the skywalk’s construction work in an RTI from the civic body said that completion of this project within the deadline is of utmost importance.

“Today, thousands of citizens cross the LBS route risking their lives, although the municipality has extended the deadline, the work should have been completed within a stipulated time,” he said.

The proposed skywalk will be 4.25 metres wide and 300 metres long. It will be built using reinforced steel and is also expected to have escalators for the convenience of pedestrians. Before issuing the work orders, the civic body had spent Rs 28 lakh for appointing a consultant who designed the skywalk.

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