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Mumbai: Manori desalination plant tender being refloated for 15 days
Updated On: 08 August, 2024 06:55 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
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The project is supposed to add 200 MLD of water to the current daily supply of 3,850 MLD. Representation Pic
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has floated a short tender to appoint a contractor for the long-pending ambitious desalination project at Manori. The civic body couldn’t find a contractor even seven months after floating the tender in December. There are allegations of discrepancies in the tender process.
The BMC had appointed IDE Water Technologies Ltd, an Israeli company, in February 2021 to prepare a detailed project report for a desalination project at Manori. The project is supposed to add 200 MLD of water to the current daily supply of 3,850 MLD, and the capacity of the plant can be later doubled. Later, in January 2022, the civic body engaged M/s SMEC India to evaluate the study and designs prepared by the Israeli firm. The report was submitted in November 2022. The civic body issued a tender notice on December 4, 2023, to set up a plant which can turn saline water potable and extended it almost six times since then till June 2024.
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