So far, the BMC has completed the assembling of the machine at the Priyadarshini Park site.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will begin tunnel boring work for the Mumbai Coastal Road project on January 7, Municipal Commissioner IS Chahal said on Monday.
The slurry-based Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM), said to be the largest tunnel boring machine deployed in India yet, will be used for tunnelling a 3.45-km-long twin, undersea tunnel from Priyadarshini Park at Malabar Hill to Girgaum Chowpatty. So far, the BMC has completed the assembling of the machine at the Priyadarshini Park site.
“Substantial work has happened in the last couple of months; 17 per cent of the physical work stands completed and the said coastal road will be functional in July 2023,” Chahal said.
Green activists, BMC lock horns over reclamation
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Coastal road project to get another 21 hectares of land
ByYogesh NaikYogesh Naik / Updated: Dec 10, 2020, 06:45 IST
Activists upset at the decision to allow reclamation of more land for the project.
The ambitious Rs 15,000-crore
coastal road project has now been given an additional 21 hectares of land. The
Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority heard the matter and gave its goahead, much to the dismay of environment activists.
Earlier, the total area required for the project was 90 hectares but now the BMC wants 111 hectares of which 96.51 hectares is for reclamation and 14.45 hectares is for sea wall protection.The 29.2 km-long coastal road project will connect Marine Drive in south Mumbai to Borivali in north Mumbai.
No wetlands in Uran, says Raigad collector
In September 2017, the Union environment ministry had notified the new Wetland (Conservation and Management) Rules, replacing the 2010 norms. The new rules do not incorporate wetlands in coastal regulation zones (CRZ) and de-recognised salt pans as wetlands. December 10, 2020 3:09:35 am
Raigad District Collector Nidhi Choudhari (Facebook@@collector.raigad)
Responding to a proposal to declare sites in Uran, including Panje, Bhendkhal and Belpada, as wetlands, Raigad District Collector Nidhi Choudhari has told a Bombay High Court-appointed Mangrove and Wetland Committee that there are no wetlands in Uran, Navi Mumbai.
In a meeting held on November 2, the Konkan divisional commissioner had directed Choudhary to prepare a proposal to declare Panje at Uran in Navi Mumbai as a wetland.