The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started lowering the Vidyavihar rail overbridge’s two girders, the longest such structures in India. This task will be completed in about a fortnight after which the civic body will start concreting the bridge. Officials said that the entire project will be finished by mid-2024. According to civic chief I S Chahal's budget speech, the Vidyavihar bridge-related work is 90 per cent complete.

A BMC official involved in the project said the girders are 120 metres long. The distance between the girders and the connector is 1.7 metres. We started the lowering work last week. The distance will be reduced to 1.2 metres. “Then, 0.5-metre-tall bearings will be placed between the pillars and girders. Fixing girders will take at least seven days,” an official said.