Mumbai will be home to India’s first undersea tunnel that will pass through Arabian Sea near Girgaon Chowpatty. This will be part of the city’s Coastal Road project.
The twin tunnels, which have a length of 2.07 km of which a kilometre will be under the sea, are being built as part of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project, a 10.58-km stretch starting from the Marine Drive promenade to the Worli-end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
The plan is to link South Mumbai with North with a toll-free freeway that is expected to ease up traffic in one of the most congested cities in the world. It will start from Priyadarshani Park and end at Netaji Subhash Road in Marine Drive.
Mumbai’s undersea tunnel will be 20 metres below the seabed.
A 2,800 tonne tunnel boring machine, the biggest of its kind in India, has been deployed to dig these tunnels.
The fact that parts of it are being built under sea makes the construction a significant challenge.
The total cost, which mainly includes construction of tunnels and other allied works, is `2,798.44 crore. The BMC said that work will be completed in about two years.
The National Highways & Infrastructure Development Corporation (NHIDCL) has invited bids for construction of bridge.
The scope of work involves construction of new two-lane bridge with its approaches from 0.000 km to 4.385 km across river Brahmaputra on NH-17 at Jogighopa in Assam on EPC mode.
The work will be completed in a period of 30 months at a cost of `504.26 crore.
The Government of India has granted approval for the construction of the second phase of the 334km long Regional Ring Road (RRR) in the state of Telangana.
The new road project, which is estimated to cost INR 130bn, will connect all the districts of the state with Hyderabad.
Telangana government also agreed to bear 50% of the total cost of the project, which is planned beyond the Outer Ring Road (ORR).
This will improve connectivity between the districts including Sangareddy, Narsapur, Toopran, Gajwel, Jagdevpur, Bhongir, Choutuppal, Ibrahimpatnam, Chevella and Shankarapalli.
The state government is planning to develop nearly 50 acres within the 30 to 40km wide strip between ORR and RRR into satellite townships.
The RRR project is expected to boost the infrastructure investments, employment opportunities and reduce congestion in Hyderabad.
The Indian government has also granted approval for 31.8km Kodad-Khammam National Highway to four lanes under the Bharatmala Pariyojana programme.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has received `2,500 crore contract for Mumbai-Ahmedabad high speed rail corridor project. “The heavy civil infrastructure business of L&T Construction has secured a significant contract from two packages of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail Corridor,” L&T said in a regulatory filing.
The order is to procure, fabricate, assemble, paint and transport 28 bridges. The project was secured through a consortium of L&T and IHI Infrastructure Systems (IIS) of Japan said L&T.
IIT Kharagpur and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA) has inked an MoU for ‘Building Accessible Safe and Inclusive Indian Cities (BASIIC). The collaboration is aimed towards developing a framework for universal city planning which would be more accessible and inclusive for various sections of the community with age-friendly disabled-friendly measures.
Through the Urban & Regional Development Plan Formulation and Implementation Guidelines, NIUA is dwelling upon new emerging aspects like regional development, sustainable habitat, inclusive planning, land use and transport integration at the planning stage, Service Level Benchmarks, disaster management concepts, and governance reforms.
