The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) plans to reconstruct the road at Malabar Hill within six months at a cost of ₹50 crores, including ₹1.26 crores for consultation charges.
In the past, during the monsoons on August 5, incessant rainfall in Mumbai led to a landslide at Malabar Hill in which the retaining wall of BG Kher Road collapsed, badly damaging the road due to which the BMC formed a technical advisory committee, which includes professors from IIT, NMIMS, BMC officials and members from structural consultancy companies to study the condition of soil and road before reconstruction of the patch.
As per reports, the Geo-Technical investigation has been completed according to the recommendation of the committee. The BMC will now pay consultation charges of around ₹45 lakhs to the professors and ₹81 lakhs to the structural designers.
Earlier on Wednesday, December 16, the civic body 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.
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