nagpur travel time from kamal chowk in north nagpur to dighori in south nagpur crossing entire central nagpur will be cut from existing around an hour to 15 minutes as the national highways authority of india nhai is all set to start work on the citys longest and costliest flyover from saturday union minister and city mp nitin gadkari has added two more components to the project g7 floor mall for rehabilitation of vendors at kamal chowk and an additional armramp towards vinkar colony tandapeth from the flyovergadkari and deputy cm devendra fadnavis will perform bhoomipuja of the project costing around 1000 crore at golibar chowk and sakkardara square on saturdaytoi was the first to report the approval to the project by the central government on november 18 2015 followed by series of stories on revisions in the flyovers designs length and cost in initial stages the cost was estimated at around 300 crore and has now increased by over three times ministry of road transport and highways under gadkari has reportedly approved 1000 crore for the projectresolving various issues a team of nhai led by chief general manager and regional officer ashish asti general manager and project director arvind kale deputy general manager technical samay nikose has designed and completed all major processes related to the projectnow the flyover has been divided into two stretches with first commencing from kamal chowk and ending at sakkardara square on umred roadnikose told toi we planned to keep sakkardara flyover intact so we are bringing down first stretch before sakkardara chowk second stretch of flyover will begin from bhande plot square and land at narsala tpoint pachpaoli flyover will be totally dismantled he saidthe total length of the two stretches of flyover without ramps is 637km despite being divided into two the first stretch from kamal chowk to sakkardara square will be the citys longest flyover stretching 4km it will be four times longer than the sitabuldi flyover and two times longer than the underconstruction pardi flyoverfor years a vegetable and fruit market operated at kamal chowk gadkari has taken care of these vendors and approved construction of g7 floor mall at the square for rehabilitation of vendorscentral nagpur mla vikas kumbhare said gadkari also approved an arm to the flyover currently pachpaoli railway over bridge rob has two arms of which one goes towards vinkar colony and other towards kamal chowk the new flyover was planned without this arm due to lack of space gadkari and fadnavis have approved funds for rehabilitation of some houses for construction of this arm up to tandapeth apart from these houses no residential or commercial building will be demolished for the project though it is passing through the citys most congested areasgadkari has also made provision of funds for construction of compound wall and eye hospital at daga maternity hospital under the project part of hospital is required for construction of rampas per nhai study one can easily reach from kamal chowk to ashok