The urban development department has given technical approval for a flyover that will connect Metropolitan on EM Bypass with Biswa Bangla Gate in New Town, officials said. The tender for the project, likely to cost around Rs 800 crore, will be floated after the finance department’s nod comes.
The 3.5km-flyover will take off from Metropolitan and enter Salt Lake over the Chingrihata crossing. It will then take a right turn from the Nicco Park crossing to enter Sector V and run about 800m above the East Calcutta Wetlands before entering New Town, said an urban development department official.
“The flyover will end near the Biswa Bangla Gate in New Town,” the official said.
Officials associated with the planning of the project said the flyover’s take-off point on the Bypass would be close to where the northern ramp of the Parama flyover merges with the artery.
