Thank You MSRDC for Bandra Sea Link

About MSRDC:
Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd. was established by the Government of Maharashtra through a resolution issued on 9th July, 1996.

The Bandra Worli Sea Link is a State-Of-the Art Engineering Marvel project of MSRDC. Thanks to MSRDC for helping Mumbai develop at this pace.

Successful Projects of MSRDC:

• Pedestrian Skywalk Bridges
• Airoli Bridge Project
• 50 Flyovers (Mumbai Traffic Improvement Mega Project)
• Mumbai Pune Expressway & Panvel - Bypass Project
• Widening of Thane Ghodbunder Road SH - 42
• Four laning of Satara - Kolhapur - Kagal section of NH4
• Improvements to Satara - Chalkewadi - Patan Road
• Amravati City Integrated Road Development Project

MSRDC has been successfully promoting and operating road projects. They carefully plan and analyse projects. There is lot of investigation, facts n figures, hindrances taken into consideration. On approval comes a state-of-the-art Design followed by construction and development.

MSRDC enters into a contract related to work and city-development projects transferred to the Corporation along with assests and liabilities.

They thrive hard to get the best offers and quality construction via tenders and bids from major developers.

MSRDC is very focussed to the country and development for the human convinience. They promote participation of any person or body or association of individuals, whether incorporated or not, in planning, investigation, designing, construction and management of transport projects and area development.

Overall, the major function of MSRDC is to undertake schemes or works, either jointly with other corporate bodies or institutions, and / or with Government or local authorities, or on agency basis in furtherance of the purposes for which the Corporation is established and all matters connected therewith.

VIDEO -Bandra Worli Sea Link

A YouTube Video that shows how the Bandra Sea Link is being constructed.
Worth Checking it out..

Bandra Sea Link Project

“The sealink would be ready in December 2008 as the dispute between Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) and Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) has been resolved,” Public Works Department Minister, Anil Deshmukh said.

The dispute between the two bodies was over the increase in project cost, which was Rs 400 crore earlier, and now it has gone up to Rs 1,306 crore. HCC had suspended work on the project since May 2007, demanding the excess cost. He said HCC has started the work again as the state granted an additional fund of Rs 112 crore for the project.

Jun 2008 SeaLink Photo 3

Here is one more photo zoomed into the Cable-Stay Bandra Sea Link. You can see how strong and clear the cables show up .

Jun 2008 SeaLink Photo 2

Here's a lovely view of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link taken near the Bandra Reclamation side.
This middle long cable pillar is exactly opposite facing Shivaji Park, Mahim.
The small boats and marine equipment are static with no one inside. Again, being a Sunday, I couldn't get to click the construction people.

Jun 2008 SeaLink Photo 1

The BandraSea Link photo that you see below is taken on 01-June-2008.
I had been on this sunny day all the way from one end of Mumbai to Bandra West and capture the beauty. Notice how broad the pavement is. This is just one view from the Taj Lands side.
Being Sunday, the construction worker's were off I guess... We didn't see anyone working on it atleast on this side of the Bandra Worli Sea Link.

Also notice how the towers in Prabhadevi Look from this view. If you remember Kal Ho Na Ho, it resembles the Newyork-Manhattan Bridge where Preiti Zinta and Shahrukh Khan had a talk.

Bandra Worli Sea Link- Video 1

A Video: Bandra Worli Sea Link
This video explains the major features and aerial view of the Bandra Sea Link

Bandra Worli Sea Link

Bandra-Worli Sea Link is long high traffic capacity eight-lane, cable-stayed bridge which will link Bandra and the western suburbs of Mumbai with Worli and central Mumbai.

It is built with with pre-stressed concrete viaduct approaches, and is the first phase of the proposed West Island Freeway system. The Rs.1306 crore project of Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation (MSRDC) is being executed by Hindustan Construction Company and is likely to be completed by December 2008. The Sea Link will enable speedy shortcut over-the-water bridge travel between Bandra and Worli.

This image was originally posted to Flickr by Swami Stream at http://flickr.com/photos/21063397@N00/2499384908. It was reviewed on 12:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC) by FlickreviewR, and confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. Photo taken under Creative Commons License 2.0 Generic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/