Drafted in haphazard manner, under duress, say engineers in letter to BMC

A day after BMC scrapped a tender worth Rs 5,800 crore floated to concretise 400 km of Mumbai roads to make the city free of potholes, a letter has come to light in which engineers from the civic body’s roads department have claimed that the tender was drafted in a haphazard and unplanned manner.

In the letter to the deputy chief engineer (Roads) on September 30, the engineers also wrote that they were made to work under stressful circumstances to prepare the tender.

When The Indian Express reached out to the engineers from the department, they acknowledged writing the letter but refrained from elaborating.