At a time when the lockdown has fast-tracked a number of construction activities across the city, it is the other way round for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). While they thought that work on the Dahisar-Andheri East and Dahisar-D N Nagar stretches of the Metro would be completed within its deadline of December 2020, shortage of labourers has delayed the project. Commissioning of both the corridors would now take another three to four months beyond the deadline.

After the lockdown was announced, work was stopped for a couple of weeks but then it was slowly started after that. Initially, MMRDA thought that the work would be completed within the deadline considering there was no traffic on the arterial roads but then the mass exodus of the labour force started affecting the infrastructure projects.

The MMRDA took to its official twitter account on Tuesday and said, "Mass exodus of the labour force has started adversely affecting infrastructure projects of @MMRDAOfficial. All project sites of MMRDA are facing problems due to lack of labourers."