Marking a significant progress, the ‘breakthrough’ was achieved on the second arm of the 2.07 kms long twin-tunnel of the upcoming Mumbai Coast Road Project being built by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), officials said here on Tuesday.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis, BMC Commissioner I.S. Chahal and other dignitaries witnessed the moment when the country’s biggest tunnel boring machine (TBM) ripped through the final few feet of the rocky bed to complete the digging works this evening.
A thunderous round of cheers and claps greeted the TBM blades rotating to gnaw away the final obstacle to open up the tunnel for thoroughfare with a cloud of dust,
