The civic administration has finally approved the contractor who had been finalised to build the Gokhale Road bridge above the railway tracks in Andheri. The work order will be issued soon, a top Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) official said on Thursday.

The BMC shut down the crucial Andheri east-west connector on November 7 after one slope on the east side was found to be dilapidated. On November 12, the civic body floated a tender of Rs 84 crore for the reconstruction of the bridge.