| Project Detail : | The National Highways Authority of India has floated tender for the new Katraj flyover, which has been approved by the Union transport ministry. The project is expected to complete in two years at ?170 crore investment. It will supplement the six-lane Katraj-Navale bridge stretch, work for which is currently in full swing. In fact, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) had proposed to build a flyover at Katraj junction to resolve the traffic snarls in the area. As the civic body could not take up the work due to a shortage of funds, NHAI decided to fund the venture. The total length of the flyover is 1,326 metres, while the width is 24.20 metres. Dhananjay Deshpande, executive engineer at National Highway Public Works Department, informed that the flyover will decongest two junctions, viz Katraj Chowk and area near Rajas Society. The authorities secured clearances from the central zoo authority for land acquisition as part of the flyover passes over the Rajiv Gandhi Zoological Park and Research Centre and the suggestion of the authority has been incorporated with a score of changes in the road alignment. The centre has given about 8,000 square metres of land in the southern periphery of the zoo
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