The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is trying to rope in a consultant to get it environmental and other clearances required for the construction of six bridges in Coastal Regulation Zones across the western suburbs. The project, for which there was no response from contractors to tenders floated earlier, will roughly cost the BMC over R2,000 crore, but the final estimation is still pending.

The BMC will ask consultants to come forward to draft a report on environmental damage that might be caused due to the construction, and mitigation measures for the same in case. The appointed consultant will also have to take all the other required permissions for the project. All these bridges will cross over a creek, nullah or the sea at certain locations and so environmental clearances will take time, revealed civic officials. The project also involves a high level of mangroves destruction but their numbers are yet to be ascertained. The consultant who will be appointed will be paid about Rs 1.25 crore.