The Tamil Nadu government has invited a tender to prepare a detailed project report for a proposed 4-km elevated flyover between Lighthouse and the Adyar Thiruvika Bridge in Chennai, marking the first formal step towards assessing the project’s feasibility and design.
The proposed Chennai elevated flyover is intended to reduce traffic congestion along the important road corridor, according to a report by Dinamalar. The Highways Department has begun preliminary work for the project and has called for bids from agencies to prepare the detailed project report.
The tender is for preparing the project report, not for constructing the elevated structure itself. The report will be expected to examine the project’s feasibility before the government decides whether to invite construction bids. This distinction is significant because the proposed alignment, engineering requirements, cost and implementation arrangements have not been established in the information currently available.
Applicants for the consultancy tender must pay an earnest money deposit of Rs 29,500. No tender fee will be collected, according to the report. The selected agency will be given 60 days to prepare the detailed project report.
The proposed stretch runs from Lighthouse to the Adyar Thiruvika Bridge, covering approximately 4 km along one of Chennai’s key road corridors. The government’s stated objective is to ease congestion, but the supplied announcement does not provide details on the number of lanes, entry and exit points, interchanges, construction cost, land requirements or the proposed construction schedule.
Those details are expected to depend on the findings of the detailed project report. The feasibility exercise will also determine whether the elevated structure can be taken forward in its proposed form. Only after the report is completed and the project’s feasibility is examined will the Tamil Nadu government decide on issuing tenders for construction, Dinamalar reported.
The sequence places the current announcement at the planning and preparation stage rather than the execution stage. For commuters and residents along the corridor, the immediate development is therefore the commissioning of technical work, while any construction activity would require a separate decision and tender process.
The 60-day deadline for preparing the project report is the next stated milestone. Following its completion, the government is expected to review the project’s feasibility before deciding whether to proceed with construction tenders.
