The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai has achieved the final breakthrough of excavation of the 5.25 km stretch from Wadala to Parel under the Chembur-Wadala-Parel underground water tunnel project on June 21, 2024. Excavation work on the Amar Mahal-Chembur stretch was completed in August 2022. The project involves the construction of a 9.7 km long tunnel from Hedgewar Udyan (Amar Mahal in Chembur) via Pratiksha Nagar (Wadala) to Sadakant Dhavan Udyan (Parel) at an approximate cost of Rs 11.25 billion.
