Reports have started filtering in about relief at the opening of the Sindoor flyover, which replaces the 150-year-old Carnac bridge, and how it has cut down commuting time.

The decision to rename the bridge after Operation Sindoor was made following India’s military strikes on terror camps in Pakistan in response to the Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. The flyover is located near Masjid Bunder railway station and connects to P D’Mello Road, re-establishing a critical east-west connection in South Mumbai. The Carnac bridge was dismantled in August 2022 after being declared unsafe by Central Railway. 

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, who recently inaugurated the structure, had claimed that James Rivett-Carnac, the 19th century governor of the erstwhile Bombay Presidency, after whom the old bridge was named, had facilitated several atrocities against Indians, adding a black chapter in our history that needed to be erased. Accordingly, the bridge’s name has been changed to honour the bravery of the Indian Army.