Construction of Subway passing underneath Kurla station will begin soon, After Inordinate delay of almost 14 years. Ongoing work on the subway is slated to be completed by December 2016, Inquiries by RTI activist Anil Galgali revealed. This time Railway and Mumbai Municipal Corporation have teamed up to finish the indefinitely delayed Project, Entailing a fresh cost Rs 5.05 crores. On completion this subway will provide a much needed link between the East & West side to one of the busiest suburban thoroughfares in Mumbai.
Executive Engineer (Construction) of Central Railway, K. Prabhakaran informed Galgali that Ms Mahesh Roopchandani of Solapur have been awarded the contract of construction by the Railways. Central Railway is to provide an additional fund of Rs 2.11 crores for completion of the project. On 21 October 2014 work starts by Contractor and would be finish on 31 December 2016. Central Railway had earlier spent Rs 3.84 crores on 129.9 metre on construction of a tunnel running under Main and Harbour Railway lines. This 7.60 metre wide tunnel with a height of 2.6 metres was constructed years ago, lay incomplete.
BMC had been entrusted the responsibility of construction of approach road to the western side of Subway, which alone would cost Rs 2.94 crores. Executive Engineer (Bridge) of Eastern Suburb of MCGM, F A Chavhan informed Galgali that Work has already officially begun on February 2016 and is to be completed in a period of nine months, Excluding the period of Rains.
"This uncompleted project had proved to be stupendous waste of resources, not put to use even after having spend Crores. I hope it will be completed now providing relief to common public, Also bringing down figures of deaths occurring during crossing of rail tracks", Galgali said.
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