Finally, after the wait of 12 years, Ramjhula was opened for all the public on
January 2018. In 2006 the work order of two-phase Ramjhula was finally
issued. It was estimated that both the phases of Ramjhula was to be
completed by 2009. The project got delayed due to various reasons. The
first phase was finally opened in December 2014. Then MSRDC started
working on the second phase. MSRDC mentioned that there were various
reasons to delay the projects. They had the problem in acquiring railway land,
procurement of cables from South Korea, Japan and South Africa. The obtaining
of various permissions from railway also got delayed.
Rs.46 corer was the initial cost of the project but overall Rs.113 corer was spent. The length of the Ramjhula including approaches is 600 meter, it is a six-lane structure with three lanes in each bridge. 200Meter is the length of the cable-stayed bridge. Height
of ramjhula is 56 meter. The bridge crosses the Nagpur Railway Station. On the
eastern side, the blue line of the metro will run along the central side of the bridge.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis today inaugurated the Cable-Stayed
Ramjhula Railway Flyover Bridge, Phase 2, at Santra Market, connecting East-
West Nagpur. The demand for many years of the people of Nagpur has finally
fulfilled. This bridge has actually solved the problem of traffic nearby to the
railway station. Ramjhula has opened for all the transports today. At the
inauguration of RamJhula Union Minister Nitin Gadkari presided over the
programme while Guardian Minister Chandrasekhar Bavankule, Public Works
Minister Eknath Shinde, Mayor Smt. Nanda Jichkar, MP Dr Vikas Mahatme,
MLA Sudhakar Deshmukh, Dr Milind Mane, Sudhakar Kohale, NMC leader of
the party in power Sandeep Joshi, Leader of the Opposition Tanaji Vanwe,
District Collector Ashwin Mudgal, Municipal Commissioner Abhijit Bangar,
Chief Engineer Ulhas Debadwar, Chief Engineer Sudhakar Murari,
Superintending Engineer Ujjwal Dabe, Manoj Malewar, former Mayor Pravin
Datke and others were present on the occasion. Ramjhula is one of the new
architecture marvel in Nagpur which has almost solve the traffic problem.
