Ahmedabad will get five new bridges early next year

The construction work of long pending river bridges, over bridges and under bridges in Ahmedabad is expected to complete within next two months. If all goes well, the city of Ahmedabad will get five new bridges by February 2011.

The bridges that are under construction and are expected to be thrown open by February 2011 are Parimal Underpass(on Parimal Crossing), Vadaj-Dudheshwar river bridge(connecting Shahibag-Dudheshwar to Vadaj-Ashram road), Girdharnagar over bridge(connecting BAPS head quarter’s backside road and Rajashthan hospital road), Jamalpur over bridge(connecting Jamalpur agricultural produce market and S.T. bus-stand-AMTS head quarter road bypassing the busy traffic junction), Soni ni chali over bridge, and Gota over bridge.

The new bridges will be named by Chief Minister Narendra Modi. The six bridge projects are worth Rs. 189.31 crore. Each project is delayed and has overshot deadline. Project cost in Rs crore are – Parimal:17.79, Vadaj-Dudheshwar:33.48, Girdharnagar:53.69, Soni ni chali:22.65, and Gota:40.15 crore Rs.