The new Carnac bridge which is renamed as Sindoor Bridge in honour of Operation Sindoor — the military operation launched against terror sites in Pakistan was inaugurated by CM Devendra Fadnavis on July 10, 2025.
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The new Carnac Bridge, now renamed as Sindoor Bridge after the ‘Operation Sindoor’, was inaugurated by Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai on Thursday (July 10, 2025). The Carnac bridge was renamed as Sindoor to erase the history, when British governor Carnac had oppressed Indians.
“The Sindoor is named after the success of Operation Sindoor to wipe the pages of India’s black history where the then Governor Carnac for years carried out atrocities against Indians,” said Mr. Fadnavis, referring to one of the historic accounts of Satara authored by Prabodhankar Thackeray.
Carnac conspired and made several attempts to Chhatrapati in a conspiracy, as per Mr. Thackeray’s writings on Satara’s Pratap Singh Raje Chhatrapati and Rango Bapu,” he added.
The bridge was completed on June 13 and opened to the public on Thursday, after the old structure was razed three years ago in 2022, citing “unsafe” to travel, following the structural audit. On July 2, Shiv Sena (UBT) and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) also staged a protest over the delay in making the bridge operational. According to the Mumbai civic body, the delay was due to pending work on signage and NOC from the Central Railway.
The length of the bridge is 328 metres, with four vehicular lanes. Earlier it was two-lane bridge, connecting port area with Crawford Market, Kalbadevi and Dhobi Talao in South Mumbai.
Carnac, one of the oldest bridges of Mumbai, was built in 1868 and named after James Rivett-Carnac, who was the Governor of Bombay from 1839 to 1841. The bridge links the Masjid area in Mumbai with P D Mello Road, likely to ease traffic congestion in several places in South Mumbai.
Published – July 11, 2025 09:38 am IST
