The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has issued a statement after Aaditya Thackeray accused the civic body of corruption in road work tenders.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray claimed that the tenders for concretisation of roads in Mumbai were floated at a higher price for the benefit of contractors, and the same should be scrapped. The Mumbai Civic Body has now rubbished the claims.
In a statement, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the cost of construction materials went up by 17 per cent and companies were not willing to work at the rates at which the tender was issued.
BMC has revised the tender rates to match the market rates,” the statement said.
The new tenders also include conditions to maintain the quality of the roads, the BMC said.
In November 2022, BMC re-floated tenders worth Rs 6,079 crore for the concretisation of 400 km of the metropolis’ roads.
The tenders were issued after an earlier one worth Rs 5,806 crore was cancelled due to poor response, the civic body had stated at the time.
Aadtiya Thackeray claimed that when a tender of Rs 5,000 crore was floated in August 2022, no one responded to it. So, in November-December last year, the civic body changed the schedule of rates, which includes escalations and de-escalations of prices.
