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NAGPUR: The ongoing controversy over delay in opening Narendra Nagar railway overbridge (RoB) for motorists may end on Wednesday as the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation has finally agreed to carry out survey of the carriage way of the bridge on Narendra Nagar ring road side by the city survey department.Even though the RoB is ready since November, the procurement of 33 sq mt land has delayed the opening of the Rs 40 crore RoB. In the past, tired of delay, twice residents and the youth wing of a political party had opened the bridge on their own.Confirming the development, MSRDC superintendent Jeevan Nikose said that inspection of the disputed land will commence at 10pm by officials of the city survey department.Nitin Kumbalkar welcomed the decision of MSRDC for agreeing to conduct inspection of the land by the city survey department. The RoB would have been opened by now had not MSRDC altered original sanctioned plan on its own," he alleged. "Extra land to be acquired belongs to my father Marotrao Kumbalkar who had earlier parted with 150 sq metres land for the project," he claimed."Since 2009 we had been demanding the land measurement by the city survey officials. As per original plan sanctioned in 1988, the 1.264km RoB was to connect with ring road near Narendra Nagar fire station. It now connects the ring road some 200 metres away from the fire station," added Kumbalkar.The inspection by city survey will be instrumental in making a crucial headway into the RoB project which has been on the back burner for the last 14 years owing to land dispute. This necessitated the MSRDC to acquire more land and get the opening of bridge mired in legal dispute.