On record
Work on this 4.6 km flyover connecting Burdwan Road to Mahatma Gandhi More stalled for two years over unresolved railway land issues before resuming in mid-2023. Nearly seven years after construction began, the project has missed a string of deadlines (2023, April 2024, April 2025 and June 2025), leaving the service road and flyover deck still incomplete.
The official record states: "Authorities cited "issues related to railway land" that needed inter-departmental resolution before work could resume, plus funding and contractor-related complications."
“Stalled two years over railway land, resumed in 2023, and still a flyover to nowhere in its seventh year.”— Blunderlust Editorial Desk
Sources
- https://siliguritimes.com/construction-of-burdwan-road-flyover-resumes-in-siliguri-after-a-two-year-hiatus/
- https://www.millenniumpost.in/bengal/siliguris-burdwan-road-flyover-set-to-be-completed-by-june-2025-599889
Visitor reviews Satire
“Deadlines in 2023, April 2024, April 2025 and June 2025, and the deck still does not reach Mahatma Gandhi More.”
“Two years lost entirely to railway land questions that could have been settled before the first pile was driven.”
“Four point six kilometres, ninety crore, seven years, and Siliguri drives underneath it all.”