The Central Railway (CR) on Monday formally announced the launch of two 61-metre open web girders of the ongoing Nerul-Belapur-Uran project between Jasai and JNPT. With this, work on the second phase of the project linking the Uran railway line to the Mumbai suburban network has moved to the advanced stage. Of the 27-km stretch of the project, about 12 km till Kharkopar is operational.

The Belapur-Seawoods-Uran suburban railway project that the CR and the City Industrial Development Corporation Limited (CIDCO) have been constructing, was rated as the most delayed railway project in Maharashtra with a time run of over 216 months (18 years), as per the union government’s infrastructure and project monitoring division of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation.