A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to carry out ground-breaking ceremony for various infrastructure projects, the BMC on Wednesday issued work orders to five contractors to concretise roads in Mumbai.
In a statement, the BMC said that work orders are being issued at a revised rate. While the rate was not mentioned in the statement, sources said that it would be 6-8 per cent less than the actual cost.
The BMC had last November floated a Rs 6,070-crore tender to concretise 397 km of roads. Last week, Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA from Worli, Aaditya Thackeray, had alleged that the BMC had floated the tenders based on inflated cost. Following this, sources said civic officials had renegotiated with the bidders, asking them to carry out the work at 6-8 per cent lesser cost.
