Gadkari launches 2 new floating restaurants in Mumbai
19 Nov 2018
Union minister for shipping, road transport and highways, water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation Nitin Gadkari on Sunday inaugurated two floating restaurants under the ongoing water front development work of Mumbai Port. He also participated in the Bhoomi Poojan ceremony of Mumbai Port Trust’s new Eastern Water Front.
The minister also launched the Access Control and RFID System as well as development of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Gadkari will also begin the invitation of tenders for Mumbai-Elephanta Ropeway and a Super Specialty Hospital at the Port.
The two floating restaurants have the capacity to accommodate 475 persons each. Licenses have been awarded for three floating restaurants – two at the sea off Gateway of India and one at the sea off Girgaum Chowpatty. These will be available for family functions, corporate or specialised events, public meets, etc. The restaurants have been registered with Maharashtra Maritime Board (MMB) for safety and security. Sea-worthiness, life-saving appliances and fire-fighting equipment have been surveyed and tested. The restaurants carry 500 life-jackets and 24 life-rafts and buoyant apparatus, and are equipped with 2 VHF, 1 Radar, eco-sounder, GPS and AIS for monitoring ship movements.
The Mumbai-Elephanta Ropeway will be the world's longest ropeway over sea - approximately 8 km - with all the necessary infrastructure at both the terminal ends. It will be built at a height of 50 to 125 metres above the sea level on European standards with state-of-art features. Total travel time will be 16 minutes from one end to the other. Around 36 gondolas can be deployed on the ropeway at a time. The project has been envisaged at a cost Rs800 crore, and will be completed by August 2022.
The 600-bedded super specialty hospital will provide improved health facilities to 75,000 port employees and dependents and 13 million population in the catchment area by converting the present port hospital into a World-class super specialty hospital on PPP basis. The project cost is estimated at Rs693 crore.
Mumbai Port Trust’s new Eastern Water Front will have an iconic building as its seaside terminal, a domestic cruise terminal, a skating rink, Ro Pax, seaside restaurant and walkway, amphitheatre and marina.
The Access Control System (Indoor and Outdoor) for visitors, employees and vehicles is designed and programmed to retrieve visitor information. Visitor and vehicle management system will be in place with online/office visitor and vehicle registration. RFID enabled, multi-purpose cards are configured to track visitors and vehicles, attendance recording, identity card, etc.
Tech Mahindra has been tasked with the development of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for adoption of information technology within port operations to reduce turnaround time. It is aimed at removing paper-based workflows currently in the system and to increase efficiency, common reporting and monitoring to make cost and budget control easy, and for unification of computerised operations from staggered mode to an integrated functioning.