Overview
- The Sangamwadi segment, the first to be finished, will be open daily from 6–9 am and 5–8 pm for walking and cycling.
- It forms part of the 3.7-km Sangamwadi–Bund Garden phase, which is about 90% complete, according to the city engineer.
- PMC targets completion of roughly 5 km between Sangamwadi and Kalyani Nagar by the end of March 2026.
- The broader 44.4-km effort, budgeted at about Rs 4,700–4,727 crore and modeled on Ahmedabad’s Sabarmati riverfront, includes embankments, parks, ghats, ramps, staircases and proposed barrages.
- The project advances under NGT and Supreme Court directions requiring environmental clearance as activists raise concerns about river ecology and monsoon flood risk.