Sahar elevated road project to be ready by June

“The major hurdles to the project have all been cleared; we are progressing on schedule,” additional metropolitan commissioner Ashwini Bhide said. “Our aim is to complete the project before next monsoon.”

The project required the relocation of nearly 700 families. The development authority had razed about 100 houses in Rajaramwadi two months ago and it has shifted another 350 project-affected families with the Bamanwada demolition.

“The resettlement of nearly 150 families and demolition in Ambedkar Nagar and 100 families in Sambhaji Nagar would be undertaken by December 15,” MMRDA spokesman Dilip Kawathkar said and added that all project-affected people were being shifted to rehabilitation and resettlement colonies in Kurla or Oshiwara.

The construction of the six-lane road is almost complete,barring a small section of the flyover and ramp. Work on the project had started in January 2008 and the original date of completion was May this year.