the BWSL, with a length of 5.5 km or 5,500 meter and width of 32 meters (8 lanes), was built with a cost of Rs16.5 billion.
When you equalise the costs of both the skywalk and sea link, the cost of skywalk turns out to be a mere 30% less than the sea link! Here are the calculations.
BWSL
Length 5,500x Width 32=176,000 sq m
Project Cost 16,500,000,000/176,000=90,909 (per sq m cost)
Bandra Skywalk
Length 1,300x Width 4= 5,200 sq m
Project Cost 136,300,000/5,200=26,211 (per sq m cost)
So the cost of the Bandra skywalk is about one third than that of the per sq meter cost of the sea link. Now let’s check the cost of Kalyan Dombivali skywalk. MMRDA is constructing this 1.4 km skywalk at a cost of Rs839 million. The width is same for all skywalks i.e. 4 meters. So here are the calculations...
Length 1,400x Width 4= 5,600 sq m
Project Cost 839,000,000/5,600=149,821 (per sq m cost)
And here are the comparisons of the sea link and skywalks:
Bandra Worli Sea Link Rs90,909 per sq m
Bandra sky walk Rs26,211 per sq m
Kalyan sky walk Rs149,821 per sq m
This means the Kalyan skywalk is more costly than that of BSWL!
Source: Suchetadalal.com
Source: Suchetadalal.com
1 comment:
The idea of anyone connected to Indian bureaucracy knowing how to do math has always sounded like a pun to me Sir. I'm almost positively sure that if someone placed this proof of yours in front of the concerned authority, then that someone would be in for a rude shock on coming to know about the degree of capability that a diplomatic tongue possesses when it comes to proving any and every allegation as untrue or incorrect.
As for the heftily superfluous amount that went into building the Kalyan Sky-walk, I feel a sizable chunk must have gone into rubbing the palms of men-in-charge and adding to the vast expanse of black money which they already own.
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