Faridabad Elevated Flyover

FMDA has opened bidding for a new elevated road meant to join Sainik Colony Chowk in the NIT zone with Greater Faridabad.

Officials peg the project cost at Rs 7.54 bn, and a Live Hindustan-NCR report notes the work is set to be finished within 900 days once construction begins. The authority describes this as one piece of a wider east-west travel upgrade for the city.

Today, no road runs straight from the Sainik Colony area to Greater Faridabad; drivers instead loop through the Neelam, Bata and NHPC rail overbridges, cross a National Highway underpass, pass through Sector 12 and the bypass, and finally cross the Agra Canal — a route with many junctions that adds to traffic jams.

Besides the main elevated stretch, planners have included a slip road close to the Bata rail overbridge and an underpass by the Khatu Shyam temple. The slip road would dip down toward the highway on one side and climb toward the Neelam bridge on the other.

Seven more flyovers and underpasses are proposed along the corridor, among them one over Badkhal village, one linking the Sainik Colony turn to Badkhal Road past the Gurugram Road entry, one running beside the lake through Badkhal village, and a fourth at Ankhir Chowk tying together the Ankhir-Gurugram road, the Gurugram-Faridabad road and the highway leading to Greater Faridabad.

Over 50,000 commuters cross between NIT and Greater Faridabad daily for jobs and business, and the existing path is broken up by the highway and rail lines separating NIT, Sector 12 and the city's newer housing sectors.

Faster residential growth in these areas has pushed up travel demand, and a direct elevated link is expected to take pressure off the current roads once built.

FMDA has only started the tender stage so far; details on the bid deadline, when a contractor will be picked, or when construction will actually start have not been released.