Considering the construction of the 22-km-long Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) between Mumbai and Navi Mumbai is India's longest under-construction sea-link, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) plans to produce a short film on its construction using drones.

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The work on MTHL started a couple of months ago and the MMRDA has said that the contractors involved will be making a short film during the construction phase considering it being a historical construction.

A MMRDA official, said, "We have some sort of provision in the contract wherein the contractors have to prepare a small video like film, and we expect to take help of drones in making the short film. However, there may be some issues regarding permissions for using drones considering the construction site is surrounded security installations but we will have to take the competent agencies in confidence for the same."

The construction site of MTHL is in close vicinity of two major ports namely the Jawarharlal Nehru Port Trust and Mumbai Port along with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre for which a security clearance was also taken from the Union Home Ministry before commencing work there.

The MMRDA official added, "MTHL is currently having the tag of longest sea-link after China, and hence we thought of having a short video on it considering it also helps for record purpose. The construction currently is in very primary stage wherein boring work is happening under water and the actual construction work will only start by November when the film also will be recorded."

The MTHL is a 22-km-long tolled cable stay bridge that is expected to be ready for public by 2022 and is the second longest sea-long in the world after the 42-km-long sea-ling between Qingdao to Huandao in China. However, China is going to make the under construction 55-km-long sea-link betweeen Hong Kong-Zhuhai and Macau.

Earlier, the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation constructing Colaba-Bandra-Seepz Metro-3 underground corridor had also said that it will use drones to film a documentary on the construction of city's first underground Metro corridor.

TRANS HARBOUR

  • MTHL is a 22-km-long tolled cable stay bridge that is expected to be ready for the public by 2022  
  • It is the second longest sea-link in the world after the 42-km-long sea-link in China