Three Six Lane Tender

Scope To construct three six-lane flyovers on Goregaon-Mulund Link Road GMLR in Mumbai MaharashtraThe BrihanMumbai Municipal corporation has planned to construct three six-lane flyovers on Goregaon-Mulund Link Road GMLR. The GMLR is one of the ambitious projects of BMC which will ease traffic congestion of both the eastern and western suburbs of Mumbai. The proposal is going to be tabled at the next standing committee meeting. BMC will spend Rs. 819 crore to construct these three flyovers.GMLR is the fourth link road that will connect eastern and western suburbs. It will solve major traffic jam problems and will save precious commuting time for Mumbaikars. The total length of the road is 12.2 km. Two tunnels will also be constructed on the road. The first tunnel will be constructed below the Sanjay Gandhi National Park SGMP and another will go under the Goregaon film city.BMCs Technical consultant Ms TPF Engineering Pvt. Ltd. has suggested the construction of three flyovers. The first bridge will be of six-lane and will be constructed at Ratnagiri Hotel chowk from Dindoshi court to the Film city near Goregaon. The length of the bridge will be 1265 metres. The second bridge will be an elevated ring road at Mulund Khindipada. The six-lane flyover at Dr Hedgewar Chowk Mulund will be of 1890meter length.The tenders were invited for the project. Three companies had shown interest. Among them Ms SP Singala construction Pvt. Ltd has won the bid. The company is ready to work on a budget of Rs.584.27 crore. After adding taxes and other costs the total cost of all three flyovers touched Rs. 819 cr.The estimated time frame for completing the project is 60 months. The contractor will have to show a 110 per cent bank guarantee. Initially BMC will give 10 cr. in advance to this company so that they can make primary preparations for the construction. The proposal stated that the octroi land near Airoli and Mulund will be made available for the casting yard.One flyover will bring vehicles from Western Express Highway and the other bridge will bring vehicles from Eastern Express Highway. Further these two bridges will connect to tunnels so traffic will move ahead smoothly. The third bridge is called Rotary Island which allows all vehicles to merge into streams around the rotary or chowk avoiding crossing of vehicles. It looks like Saat Rasta and King Circle type of chowk. This chowk will help both the side vehicles to move ahead in two different directions