MUMBAI: A consortium of Reliance Infrastructure and Italy’s Astaldi will build the 10-km Bandra-Versova sealink in five years. The state government on Friday awarded the Rs 6,994 -crore project to the consortium even though the bid, lowest a number of the five in the fray, was Rs 1,477 crore upper than the Rs five,516 crore estimate made by the government in November 2016 while inviting bids.
Construction of the sealink, anticipated to scale back the Bandra-Versova travel time to round 10 minutes, is more likely to begin in October. The easy drive will come at a top rate for motorists as the minimum toll will probably be Rs 130 when the sealink opens by 2023.
“The letter of acceptance has been issued to the three way partnership,” stated Radheshyam Mopalwar, MD of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, which is in charge of the project. P four
The MSRDC board on Friday cleared the bid which quoted Rs 6,994 crores – Rs1,477 crores upper than the authority’s estimated price of Rsfive,516 crores for the civil works of the project. However, the engineers stated the bid price is actually reasonable and relevant as the price of Rs 5516 was first estimated in NOvember 2016 when the tender was floated almost two years ago.
VBSL is an important part of the coastal highway project, as it proposes to attach south Mumbai to the western suburbs via upcoming coastal highway to be built by BMC and present BWSL. It is anticipated to be complete by 2023.
Reliance Infra has already been awarded the bid for 32.32-km-long Wadala-Ghatkopar-Thane-Kasarvadavali Metro. For VBSL Rinfra has partnered with an Italian company. The different bidders for the project have been joint ventures of ITD Cem-Hyundai Engineering and L&T Infrastructure-Samsung C&T.
Earlier in January this year, MSRDC had appointed a US company, Louis Berger, as the advisor for the 18 km sea hyperlink at a price of Rs109 crores. Meanwhile, MSRDC has received all the permissions wanted for development. Connecting the Bandra Worli Sea Link, the bridge can have interchanges at Otter’s membership in Bandra close to carter highway and Juhu Koliwada aside from an exit at Versova.
This sea-link project, value about Rs 7000-7200 crore, is anticipated to be finished inside five years. In 2016, this same project was value Rs five,500 core. In December 2017, the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Infrastructure had replaced its Chinese partner for the sea-link project. Reliance was probably the most five corporations that had bid for the sea-link paintings. Like Reliance, different Indian corporations had gone for a three way partnership too. This project was first proposed in 2009, but after the idea of coastal highway was floated, it was abandoned. Now, this project has gained momentum, since there's a lengthen in the coastal highway project due to opposition from environmentalists and Juhu residents. However, since then, the price of the project has gone up substantially, almost 1400 cr.
For motorists, the sea hyperlink will probably be costlier proposition than the similar coastal highway stretch by Rs three,500 crore. The further minimum Rs 250-300 one-way toll when it comes to the brand new sea hyperlink will probably be a burden on commuters for nearly 30 years minimum. Earlier, the proposal was to construct the sealink through personal funding through build, perform and transfer (BOT) as coastal highway on the same stretch was the concern. But MSRDC despatched a recent proposal to construct the hyperlink with borrowing and government funding as coastal highway was being adversarial by the residents since they stated it could damage mangroves and fisherfolks’ areas.
"A tunnel for the coastal highway at Juhu chowpatty can have beene risky. The sea hyperlink can have two cable-stayed bridges, similar to the existing Bandra-Worli sea hyperlink (BWSL). These bridges is not going to are available in the best way of Juhu airport runway's flying trail or funnel. In the case of the sea hyperlink’s connectors at Juhu, Bandra and Versova, MSRDC needs high courtroom permission for construction above mangrove patches. Had BMC taken up coastal highway, it could have taken even more to get recent CRZ and atmosphere clearances and thus behind schedule all of the project,” stated an authentic while justifying government decision to move forward with hyperlink somewhat than coastal highway alongside bandra-versova coast.
Construction of the sealink, anticipated to scale back the Bandra-Versova travel time to round 10 minutes, is more likely to begin in October. The easy drive will come at a top rate for motorists as the minimum toll will probably be Rs 130 when the sealink opens by 2023.
“The letter of acceptance has been issued to the three way partnership,” stated Radheshyam Mopalwar, MD of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, which is in charge of the project. P four
The MSRDC board on Friday cleared the bid which quoted Rs 6,994 crores – Rs1,477 crores upper than the authority’s estimated price of Rsfive,516 crores for the civil works of the project. However, the engineers stated the bid price is actually reasonable and relevant as the price of Rs 5516 was first estimated in NOvember 2016 when the tender was floated almost two years ago.
VBSL is an important part of the coastal highway project, as it proposes to attach south Mumbai to the western suburbs via upcoming coastal highway to be built by BMC and present BWSL. It is anticipated to be complete by 2023.
Reliance Infra has already been awarded the bid for 32.32-km-long Wadala-Ghatkopar-Thane-Kasarvadavali Metro. For VBSL Rinfra has partnered with an Italian company. The different bidders for the project have been joint ventures of ITD Cem-Hyundai Engineering and L&T Infrastructure-Samsung C&T.
Earlier in January this year, MSRDC had appointed a US company, Louis Berger, as the advisor for the 18 km sea hyperlink at a price of Rs109 crores. Meanwhile, MSRDC has received all the permissions wanted for development. Connecting the Bandra Worli Sea Link, the bridge can have interchanges at Otter’s membership in Bandra close to carter highway and Juhu Koliwada aside from an exit at Versova.
This sea-link project, value about Rs 7000-7200 crore, is anticipated to be finished inside five years. In 2016, this same project was value Rs five,500 core. In December 2017, the Anil Ambani-led Reliance Infrastructure had replaced its Chinese partner for the sea-link project. Reliance was probably the most five corporations that had bid for the sea-link paintings. Like Reliance, different Indian corporations had gone for a three way partnership too. This project was first proposed in 2009, but after the idea of coastal highway was floated, it was abandoned. Now, this project has gained momentum, since there's a lengthen in the coastal highway project due to opposition from environmentalists and Juhu residents. However, since then, the price of the project has gone up substantially, almost 1400 cr.
For motorists, the sea hyperlink will probably be costlier proposition than the similar coastal highway stretch by Rs three,500 crore. The further minimum Rs 250-300 one-way toll when it comes to the brand new sea hyperlink will probably be a burden on commuters for nearly 30 years minimum. Earlier, the proposal was to construct the sealink through personal funding through build, perform and transfer (BOT) as coastal highway on the same stretch was the concern. But MSRDC despatched a recent proposal to construct the hyperlink with borrowing and government funding as coastal highway was being adversarial by the residents since they stated it could damage mangroves and fisherfolks’ areas.
"A tunnel for the coastal highway at Juhu chowpatty can have beene risky. The sea hyperlink can have two cable-stayed bridges, similar to the existing Bandra-Worli sea hyperlink (BWSL). These bridges is not going to are available in the best way of Juhu airport runway's flying trail or funnel. In the case of the sea hyperlink’s connectors at Juhu, Bandra and Versova, MSRDC needs high courtroom permission for construction above mangrove patches. Had BMC taken up coastal highway, it could have taken even more to get recent CRZ and atmosphere clearances and thus behind schedule all of the project,” stated an authentic while justifying government decision to move forward with hyperlink somewhat than coastal highway alongside bandra-versova coast.
Bandra-Versova sealink to be built in 5 years
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