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The Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA) is planning to build a 7 km-long flyover in the city.
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The proposed flyover — connecting Brace Bridge in South-West Kolkata with Batanagar in the extreme South of the city — is estimated to cost nearly Rs 250 crore.
“We will build the elevated corridor from Brace Bridge to Batanagar under the public-private partnership model. Once the project is sanctioned, it would take two years to complete the construction,” Mr Vivek Bharadwaj, Chief Executive Officer of KMDA, told reporters here on Tuesday.
He was addressing a seminar on urbanisation in Kolkata organised by city-based Bharat Chamber of Commerce.
Other Projects
Mr Bharadwaj said KMDA is expecting a letter of intent for the proposed Rs 112 crore ($20 million) flyover at Kamalgachi in the South Eastern fringes.
The city development authority has also chalked out plans for another flyover near the Raja S. C. Mullick Road at Jadavpur.
He promised that the 4.6 km-long Park Circus to Parama Island flyover, a JNNURM project, would be completed by June 2013.
“All the problems have been sorted out in this project. We will open this flyover for use later next year,” Mr Bharadwaj confirmed. The second longest flyover in the city was earlier slated to be functional by August 2012.
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