While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has fast-tracked work on its ambitious Coastal Road project, the Coronavirus is now likely to result in delays in its planned schedule. Tunnelling work on the road will now begin only after November 2020 owing to the machinery being stuck in China.

They were supposed to be brought to India through the sea route — tunnel boring machines by April and ancillary equipment by June. The BMC has, therefore, asked contractors to focus on reclamation and piling work for now. The machinery will now arrive in August and October, officials informed.