A day after the fisherfolk community of Mumbai and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) reached a common ground as the civic body decided to increase the width of a proposed navigation span — which is part of the BMC’s ambitious Mumbai Coastal Road Project— to 120 metres, Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday said that the latest move will result in a cost escalation of Rs 650 crore.
The 10.5-km-long stretch of the coastal road is being built on reclaimed land to decongest traffic and connect Nariman Point in the southernmost tip of Mumbai with the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) at Worli. At the Worli end, the BMC is constructing a traffic interchange that will connect the stretch with the sea link.
