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Bandra Worli Sea Link Environment MGMT

The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, inaugurated on June 30, 2009, is a significant infrastructure project in Mumbai, connecting Bandra to Worli and reducing travel time drastically. However, it has faced criticism for environmental issues, including illegal tree felling and impacts on local fishermen's livelihoods, as well as exacerbating traffic congestion in South Mumbai. The project has seen substantial cost escalations and has raised concerns regarding its sustainability and adherence to environmental regulations.

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Bandra Worli Sea Link Environment MGMT

The Bandra-Worli Sea Link, inaugurated on June 30, 2009, is a significant infrastructure project in Mumbai, connecting Bandra to Worli and reducing travel time drastically. However, it has faced criticism for environmental issues, including illegal tree felling and impacts on local fishermen's livelihoods, as well as exacerbating traffic congestion in South Mumbai. The project has seen substantial cost escalations and has raised concerns regarding its sustainability and adherence to environmental regulations.

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The Bandra-Worli Sea link

Prepared By,
Amit Verma -11
Qais Ibrahim - 12
Arvind Elle - 13
Vikas Sadavarte - 14
Minal Khochare - 15
The Bandra- Worli Sea Link
 INAUGURATION June 30, 2009

 Landmark for Mumbai city

 Among the most complex & advanced

 construction projects ever in India

 Major project in Mumbai metropolitan region after


Mumbai-Pune expressway
Project
 Sea link project conceived in the 1990s
 Plagued by PILs- fishermen & environmentalists
 2004- Work started
 But drastic changes to 80% of the bridge design
 Cost escalation from Rs 350 crore to Rs 1,306
crore to Rs 1,634 crore
 MSRDC project
 Executed by Hindustan Construction Company
 Illumination by Bajaj Electricals, Rs 9 crore
Location
• Built over the Mahim Bay
• Connects Bandra(suburb) to Worli(central Mumbai)
• 8-lane-wide
• Sea link length- 5.6-km, 3.8 km over the sea
Facts
• Height of the cable-stayed tower = 43-storey building
• Weight= 50,000 African elephants
• Steel wire used= circumference of the earth
• Cement used- 90,000 tons
• 16 lanes toll plaza, at the Bandra end
•
How the Sea-Link Helps
• Additional connectivity from city to suburbs
• Reduces travel time from 1 hour+ to only 7 minutes
• Decongests Mahim Causeway- 125,000 vehicles a
day
• Avoids 29 traffic lights
• Save Rs 100 crore a year in vehicle operating costs
Landmark

• Hot tourist spot


• Key destination in 'Mumbai Darshan' package
• Special open BEST buses between BKC & Worli sea
face
• 8-lane bridge, with 2 dedicated bus lanes
Problems Perceived
• Major traffic snarls at Worli, no solution figured out
• Additional congestion on SV road and across Lilavati
Hospital
• Toll proposed- Rs 50 one-way, may dissuade a few

•
Environmental Issues

 PROTECTED SPECIES ENDANGERED BY ILLEGAL TREE FELLING

 Depletion of mangroves
 Flora and fauna suffered
 Reduction in oxygen
 Depletion of marine life as they are breeding ground for them
 Flooding and choking of the drains have increased.
 Moreover shellfish and freshwater fish have all stopped breeding.
Environmental Issues

 IMPACT ON LIVELIHOOD OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES

 Affects the livelihood of several fishermen families


 Approximately 20,000 people are dependent on fishing as an occupation.
 In mahim 500 are dependent and in bandra another 2,000 are affected.
 Their pleas were ignored
 We have to walk 500 square yards to reach the sea. We have no place to
park our boats.
We have no source of income now and reclamation is still continuing.
Earlier our family used to earn around Rs. 1,500 a day but now we get
only Rs. 100 a day, sometimes less.
There used to be lobsters, crabs, prawns, etc. But now because of
the pollution we do not get these.
Environmental Issues

 THE IMPACT OF ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC – CONGESTION IN


SOUTH MUMBAI

 The road network is based on three north-south corridor


 Mumbai road traffic has worsened by around 400% in the last
twenty years.
 It poses considerable health problems.
 The effect of major new roads attract additional traffic
 The persistent congestion can only be alleviated by managing
demand within available capacity
 The most popular and environmentally clean mode of
transport is electrically operated local railway network
Environmental Issues

INCREASE IN ROAD TRAFFIC A SOURCE OF POLLUTION

 In Mumbai, noise pollution will increase with traffic volume


 The concept of encouraging unsustainable and unhealthy mode of
public transport is retrogressive
 In Mumbai, road transport is a major source of air pollution and
poses a considerable health problem
 Another effect of the increase in private vehicle growth is rise in
noise pollution, which leads to stress related health problems and
lowering of efficiency of work
CONCLUSION

It is clear that the not one but several aspects of the
Environmental Regulations of the country have been
violated.
 Secondly the project as is planned will only seek to
exacerbate the problem is already severely congested.
 The most worrying part of the project is that
studies using current data have not been used.
 Lastly as there has been no survey undertaken how
much the citizens are willing to pay for the use of the
bridge.

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