Over 360 years after Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj outsmarted the Mughal army at the Battle of Umbarkhind, engineers are now battling in the same Sahyadri mountains of Maharashtra -- against nature, while building India’s highest road cable-stayed bridge on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway.

Near Chaavani village in Khalapur, Raigad, where Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and his force once defeated 30,000 Mughal soldiers, engineers from Afcons Infrastructure are constructing a bridge that will rise 132 metres above the ground as part of the Mumbai-Pune Expressway Missing Link Project. The bridge is expected to be completed in 2026.