Naroda Patiya flyover project delayed by a year

Ahmedabad: The completion deadline for the Naroda Patiya flyover - to be the city’s longest at 2.5km - has once again been extended. Scheduled to be completed by July this year, the project will continue till June 2027. The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation’s (AMC) standing committee meeting discussed the delay on Thursday.Standing committee chairman Kamlesh Patel said, “The contractor has been penalised Rs 50 lakh for the delay, and the new deadline has been fixed for June 2027. Orders have been issued to complete the work within this new deadline.”According to the extension proposal approved by the committee, “The contractor delayed the project due to various reasons, including dispute over forest land, execution delays, and shifting of underground utilities. Consequently, the contractor was penalised. The previous deadline extension till Dec 2026 too passed. The new deadline is June next year.”An AMC official said, “In 2021, AMC proposed three flyovers in the eastern region: from Memco BRTS towards Naroda Highway, from Naroda Junction towards Chiloda, and from Naroda Junction via Devi Cinema towards Chiloda Circle. The state govt gave in-principle approval to merge these three into a single integrated flyover. At the roads and buildings committee held on Aug 23, 2021, approval was granted for a 2.5 km-long flyover from Naroda Patiya to Galaxy Crossroads for Rs 197.98 crore. The work commenced on July 17, 2023. The deadline was set at 36 months, making the official completion date July 16, 2026. As of April 1, 2025, only 36.80% of the work was completed, and the project kept getting delayed due to various reasons.”The official added, “Building the flyover involves acquisition of 1.3 hectares of forest land. It is also mandatory to provide the department equivalent land elsewhere in the state. In response to the forest department’s demand, a proposal by the AMC to allocate two plots in the Isanpur West town planning scheme to the forest department was approved by the standing committee in Nov 2025.”