Demolition of the over 150-year-old Carnac bridge has been scheduled for this month. It was recommended that the bridge be pulled down as it had become a danger for the busy rail traffic passing below.

The bridge has markings in Hindi, Gujarati and English with the letters 1868 and the name of the bridge carved on plaques on all four sides. The bridge was built about 30 years after a road came up at the location and was constructed by Indian entrepreneur Laxman Harishchandra Ajinkya, in the 1840s while he was constructing one of the first wharf and basins of Bombay along the eastern shore, a report in this paper said.