One of the most ambitious projects of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) — the Goregaon Mulund Link Road (GMLR) — has hit a roadblock with a report issued by the National Board for Wildlife (NBWL) asking the civic body to conduct an environment impact study before, in between and after completion of the project. The NBWL had cleared the GMLR proposal in February this year with the condition that the impact study be conducted, but the matter has come to light now. What is further delaying the project is the BMC's plan to modify the original layout, as the connecting road would divide the film city into two parts.

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As part of the project, the civic body plans to construct two 4.7km-long tunnels under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP) so that they don't affect the forest. But as they would run through an eco-sensitive zone, four main clearances were required — MoEF, wildlife, forest and eco-sensitive zone. The Environment Ministry's expert appraisal committee had asked the BMC to conduct a year-long environment impact assessment study and also a noise and vibration impact study in October 2017. However, in a meeting held on April 12, 2018, the EAC delisted the project by stating that the road was not part of the State National Highway and was just a part of BMC's DP.