With all the big-ticket projects of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) — Deonar waste-to-energy plant and Goregaon Mulund Link Road — set to find a mention in the civic budget, to be presented in the first week of February, senior civic officials said that the Coastal Road might get a sizeable allocation of Rs 2,500 crore. With all the legal hurdles out of their way, the civic body plans to take up a significant portion of the work on the Rs 13,000 crore project in the upcoming financial year. Last year, the BMC had allocated Rs 1,600 crore for the Coastal Road but none of it could be used till the SC vacated the stay on the project in December last year.

A senior civic official said that while the project would be completed in the next three years, the BMC was hoping to complete a majority of the piling work in the next eight to 10 months. "We have ordered specialised equipment. The piling rig machine can complete the work at a pace three times faster than that of other equipment. We have started the reclamation work at Haji Ali, Priyadarshini Park and Amarsons Garden," said the official. He added that more piling rig machines will be used in the coming months.