Mumbai, June 26 (IANS) Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) will construct a 17.17 km-long Versova-Bandra Sea Link (VBSL) at a cost of Rs 7,000 crore, a statement said here on Wednesday.

The project will be commissioned within five years and will cut down the commute time from over 90 minutes to barely 10 minutes.

The VBSL will be linked to the existing Bandra Worli Sea Link (BWSL) which is 5.6 km long.

The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) awarded the project to RInfra which has already completed the works for the project in collaboration with world-class contractors.

--IANS qn/pg