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Maha Metro drops ambitious plan for tunnel at Futala Lake precinctsViewers gallery on banks of Futala Lake that will now be developed as a single entity minus earlier plan of a tunnel below the road following approval to revised development plan. (File pic)Staff Reporter :Maha Metro has done an about turn on the ambitious Futala Lake project as the premier company officially dropped the plans for a tunnel underneath the existing road. Since Futala Lake falls under Grade-I heritage status the proposal needed approval from Heritage Committee and the modified project got nod form the experts. Since start one was skeptical about the tunnel project and locals could not decipher the reason for Metro's insistence on the tunnel. That time alone realisation dawned upon planners that tunnel plan at Telenkhedi is fraught with danger and smartly they abandoned the grand plan..