While inspecting the ongoing Mumbai Coastal Road Project, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Sunday said the north section of the project will be completed by December 2028.

Following the inspection, Fadnavis also stated that once the project is completed, the Coastal Road will provide seamless connectivity between Nariman Point in south Mumbai and Bhayandar in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). The north section of the Coastal Road will connect Versova with Bhayandar, while the southern section connecting Nariman Point with Bandra Worli Sea Link became operational in March 2024.

“The Coastal Road will bring great relief to Mumbai residents. Today, 60 per cent of Mumbai’s traffic passes via the Western Express Highway (WEH), and to reduce the pressure on it, we are preparing a signal-free road from Nariman Point to Bhayandar. Our effort is that this entire project will be completed by October-November or December 2028,” the Maharashtra chief minister said.

Fadnavis added that the state government has also decided to develop the periphery around the Coastal Road into a modern commercial hub on the lines of Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).

Compensatory plantation

Meanwhile, the chief minister informed that adequate compensatory plantation of mangroves has to be carried out simultaneously.

“We have acquired all the necessary environmental clearances for executing the project, and the work of mobilisation of manpower and machinery has begun. The land acquisition was also completed last year. So we are hopeful that by the end of 2028, the road will be operational,” an official said.

The proposed second phase of the Coastal Road has been divided into six different packages. Package A will cover 4.5 km between Versova and Bangur Nagar (Goregaon), and Package B will cover 1.66 km between Bangur Nagar and Mindspace (Malad). Packages C and D will include twin tunnels – both 3.9 km long – connecting Mindspace in Malad with Charkop in Kandivali.

Package E will span 3.78 km, connecting Charkop with Gorai, and the final Package F will be 3.69 km long and connect Gorai with Dahisar. From Dahisar, the civic authorities are constructing another 5.6 km elevated corridor that will extend till Bhayandar in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region.

The overall project will be 25 km long, and the total cost has been pegged at Rs 25,000 crore.