{"id":1195,"date":"2023-03-18T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T08:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebazaar.com\/news\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2023-03-18T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T08:34:21","slug":"project-cost-for-versova-bandra-sealink-rises-by-60-to-rs-11333cr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebazaar.com\/news\/project-cost-for-versova-bandra-sealink-rises-by-60-to-rs-11333cr\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Cost For Versova-Bandra Sealink Rises By 60% To Rs 11,333Cr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There has been practically little development on the project despite the significant budget increase of almost Rs 4,300 cr over the last 4 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many parties have contested the project&#8217;s environmental clearance, which has caused legal snags for the project and supreme court is now involved in the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 17.7 kilometres long, Rs 7,000 crore project was supposed to be finished in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The project&#8217;s completion date has now been moved to December 2026 by the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC), the project&#8217;s nodal organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The VBS development project was initially awarded in 2019 to a collaboration of Reliance Infra Ltd. &amp; Astaldi of Italy, after a competitive process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">L&amp;T &amp; ITD Cementation received L2 and L3, with project costs of Rs 7,600 cr &amp; Rs. 7,300 cr, respectively. Reliance-Astanali JV was the L1 at a price of Rs 6,993 crore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Reliance Infrastructure was managed to sell to Astadi in 2021, and APPCO, a business based in Uttar Pradesh, joined Astadi as a new joint venture partner on the project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In February 2017, MSRDC (Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation) received Environment Clearance (EC) from the (SEIAA) State Environment Impact Assessment Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The NGT&#8217;s Western Bench dismissed the case in August 2022 after JMMVKSS (Juhu Moragaon Machhimar Vividh Karyakari Sahkari Sanstha), a fish workers society, contested the EC given to the sea link.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following that, the case was brought before High Court, which also denied the petition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thereafter, a different petitioner submitted a comparable petition contesting the EC given to the development of the NGT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In opposition to the NGT bringing up a similar matter, which was previously resolved by High Court &amp; the NGT&#8217;s Western Bench, the MSRDC has now filed a petition with the Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The project&#8217;s cost has increased to Rs 11,333 cr as a result of the excessive delay, according to Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who also mentioned the MSRDC&#8217;s request for an immediate hearing in Supreme Court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Supreme Court is going to hear MSRDC&#8217;s appeal in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been practically little development on the project despite the significant budget increase of almost Rs 4,300 cr over the last 4 years. Many parties have contested the project&#8217;s environmental clearance, which has caused legal snags for the project and supreme court is now involved in the case. 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