Project @ a glance

Santacruz Chembur Link Road (SCLR), Mumbai:

Only double decker flyover of India

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6.45 km long arterial road in Mumbai, connecting the Western Express

Highway (WEH) in Santa Cruz with the Eastern Express Highway (EEH)
in Chembur
The six-lane road was constructed as part of the World Bank-funded Mumbai
Urban Transport Project (MUTP)

The World Bank withdrew funding midway through the project due to repeated
delays, and the second phase was financed by the Mumbai Metropolitan
Region Development Authority (MMRDA) with its own funds.

Construction
The SCLR was commissioned in 2003 under the World Bank-funded MUTP,
and was originally scheduled to be completed by November 2004.
The SCLR project was initially entrusted to the Public Works Department
(PWD). Responsibility for the project was later transferred to the Maharashtra
State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), and the Mumbai Metropolitan
Region Development Authority(MMRDA) was appointed as the nodal agency.
The SCLR project was implemented in two phases. The first phase was
executed by the MSRDC and the second phase was executed by
the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Phase I comprises the
3.45 km long section and Phase II consists of the 3 km.
Section 1 and 2 were contracted to Patel Engineering Ltd and Gammon India
Ltd. respectively. The Louis Berger Group Inc. served as Project Management
Consultants for both sections.

Timelines
The project missed 12 deadlines
Original deadline of November 2004.
Following this, 11 other deadlines have been fixed and missed for the
project: September 2006, December 2008, December 2009, June
2010, June and December 2011, December 2012, March 2013,
9.5 years
October 2013, December 2013 and 31 March 2014.
delay
The SCLR was opened to the public on 18 April 2014.

Cost
Cost

The cost of constructing the SCLR was originally estimated

escalation
of 391.3%.
as 114.96 crore in 2003.
This was revised to 254.76 crore in August 2011.
According to the reply from the MMRDA to a Right to Information (RTI)
request filed by RTI activist Anil Galgali, the latest estimated project cost
is 454 crore (US$67 million)

Described by the World Bank as the

"world's most delayed road project"
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Reasons for delay

An MMRDA official defended the delay in the project stating, "It was huge
project ... We had to resettle more than 3,500 project-affected people. There
were also issues will relocation of a religious structure, and a politician's
interference, too, did not help.

A major delay occurred in getting clearance from Central Railway (CR)

to construct a 50.9-metre bridge over the Central Line. Despite
receiving the request in 2007, CR took 5 years and asked for 4
changes in design before finally approving construction in July 2012.

5 years
delay in
getting
clearance

CR reply:
"MMRDA blamed us for the delay. But the design of the road over bridge
across the tracks was such that it would not have got the commissioner
of railway safety's approval. The consultants should have thought about
this long ago.

According to Jitendra Gupta of the Citizens' Transport Committee, "There

is no accountability and coordination among the government agencies
involved.
We had met the railway chief engineer in charge of the project around
four years ago and were told that he had 200 proposals like the SCLR
to examine because of his wide jurisdiction. He said he couldn't make
an exception for the SCLR and speed up clearances."

Delay was caused by a change in the specification for a girder from concrete to
6
steel.

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