 "to appoint consultants to conduct peer review of city coastal road")
The Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-controlled BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will within a month appoint consultants to conduct peer review of the Rs 13,000 crore coastal road, connecting south and north Mumbai.
The 35.6 km link is expected to provide relief to city commuters who, currently, take up to three hours to travel during the peak traffic hours. The link is expected to de-congest the city and create 91 hectare of green space.
The coastal road is one of the ongoing city infrastructure up-gradation projects with an investment of over Rs 60,000 crore.
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BMC will soon select a consultant from the two shortlisted bidders (companies from the United Kingdom and Netherlands) to conduct peer review during the project implementation. The civic body will have to shell out about Rs 2.50 crore towards consultancy fee.
BMC official, associated with the project implementation on a condition of anonymity, told Business Standard , “The civic body had already received detailed project report from the STUP consultants. However, peer review for the evaluation of work till the project completion is necessary.
BMC has already shortlisted companies from the UK and Netherlands and, one of them will be awarded the job. The formal environment clearance by the Union ministry of environment and forest is expected any time now.”
The official said the project cost is revised to Rs 13,000 crore from the original estimate of Rs 8,500 crore. He however, declined to give timeline for the completion of coastal road.
The official explained the eight-laned coastal road will have 22 entry and exit points and it will be built as a combination of under-sea tunnels, roads on stilts and viaducts, and roads on land reclaimed from the sea and mangroves. About 160 hectares will be reclaimed from the sea and mangroves.”
