Mumbai’s civic body, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday, December 16, approved the appointment of a project consultant for Mumbai’s largest sewage treatment plant.
This treatment plant is to come up in Malad at a cost of ₹2,000 crores. Moreover, the standing committee of the civic body approved the proposal with an amendment to appoint the second-lowest bidder as the project consultant. As per reports, the BMC had shortlisted Tata Consulting Engineers, the lowest bidder at ₹61 crores, as the project consultant for the proposed sewage treatment plant. However, the standing committee members have stated that the Tata Consulting Engineers is a consultant on five other STPs and has crossed the maximum number of projects a company can work on at a given time with the BMC. Therefore, it has decided to amend the decision and give the project to the second-lowest bidder, NJS Engineers India Ltd.
On the other hand, the civic body, after getting a go-ahead to construct the waste-to-energy project at Deonar back in November, has come up with the idea of this sewage treatment plant. Back in 2019, the Bombay High Court had issued the deadline of December 31, 2019, for the civic body to dump waste at Deonar dumping ground. The BMC had later sought extension citing it would require more time to appoint contractors responsible for the waste-to-energy plant at Deonar.
Moreover, the contract was allotted to the lowest bidder-Chennai M S W Pvt Ltd. The BMC is touted to give 12 hectares of the over 120-hectare Deonar landfill to the contractor to set up the plant in a time span of 40 months in order to operate it for 15 years.
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