Tribune flyover: UT told to float tender

Ramkrishan Upadhyay
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 13

The UT Administration will soon float tenders for the construction of a flyover at Tribune Chowk as Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has approved the project.

The Standing Finance Committee of the ministry had approved the project last month.

Sources in the ministry said the approval for the project had been sent to the UT Administration with a direction to float a tender for the construction of the flyover soon.

Sources said the Administration was planning invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lay the foundation stone of the project.

While the Administration had sent a proposal to construct the first such project in the city at the cost of Rs 386 crore, the ministry has approved Rs 186 crores for the first phase of the project. The entire cost of the project will be borne by the ministry.

On local MP Kirron Kher’s demand, Gadkari had announced the project during his visit to the city in 2016. Kirron had been pursuing the project to get it approved for long.

The project is aimed at check the traffic problem at Tribune Chowk. It was conceived to ease the flow of traffic on the congested Dakshin Marg, especially the Tribune roundabout.

Sources in the engineering department said the plan and the design of the flyover had already been prepared by a Mumbai-based consultant, Stup Constructions.

The first flyover project of the city will now be completed in two phases. In the first phase, the flyover will be constructed from a distance of 300 metres from the GMCH roundabout towards Tribune Chowk and will descend before the railway overbridge. It will also have an underpass from the Industrial Area to southern sectors.

In the second phase, it will connect Chandigarh with the Zirakpur flyover.

About the project

• On city MP Kirron Kher’s demand, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari had announced the project during his visit to the city in 2016. 
• The project is aimed at checking the traffic problem at Tribune Chowk. The flyover was conceived to ease the flow of traffic on the congested Dakshin Marg, especially the Tribune roundabout.
•  The entire cost of the project will be borne by the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.

To be completed in two phases

• The first flyover project of the city will be completed in two phases. 
• In the first phase, the flyover will be constructed from a distance of 300 metres from the GMCH roundabout towards Tribune Chowk and will descend before the railway overbridge. It will also have an underpass from the Industrial Area to southern sectors.
• In the second phase, it will connect Chandigarh with the Zirakpur flyover.