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“We had appointed a special consultant just to take permission from the forest department. A proposal was sent to the Mumbai office of the forest department over a year ago and the permission was granted in March. The main office in Nagpur approved it within 12 days (in April) and now the proposal is in Mantralaya. The quantum of the project is small and may not require authorisation from the Centre,” said a civic official.

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An official from the Bridges department said, “Around 15 per cent of the bridge falls in the forest land. We are trying to complete other work before the monsoon. Even if the permission is granted before June, the portion over the river cannot be built during the rains. The bridge may be completed by December.”

The 41.5-metre-long bridge connects Borivli East’s three neighbourhoods—Shri Krishna Nagar, Abhinav Nagar and Shantivan—to the Western Express Highway. At present, two of the four lanes of the bridge are operational.