Alleging obscurity, irregularity, BJP in Mumbai demands re-tendering for energy plant at Deonar

Mumbai, February 21: The Bharatiya Janata Party in Maharashtra on Friday has demanded re-tendering for the proposal of setting up an energy plant from 600 metric tonne waste at Deonar dumping ground, alleging of obscurity and irregularity. 

 

A delegation of BJP, led by party's Mumbai unit president Mangal Prabhat Lodha, met BMC commissioner Pravin Pardeshi and raised this demand. "The delegation submitted a letter in this regard signed by BJP MP Manoj Kotak, who is the party's group leader in the BMC", the statement noted.

 

The party claimed the ruling Shiv Sena in connivance with the opposition Congress has awarded the contract for the plant to second-lowest bidder instead of the lowest bidder. "Instead of awarding the tender to lowest bidder, it was awarded to second lowest, which leads to financial loss of Rs 173 crore," claimed Kotak and demanded re-tendering for the proposal. The BJP also claimed that if the project implemented on the public-private partnership model, it will save Rs 1,200 crore of taxpayers' money.

 

The Deonar dumping ground is a waste dumping ground or landfill in the city of Mumbai. Located in the city's Deonar, an eastern suburb of the city, it is India's oldest and largest dumping ground, set up in 1927. It often makes news, especially when waste decomposes and the emitting methane gas catches fire, or when the municipal corporation announces something outrageous, such as inviting tenders for herbal deodorants to mask the landfill and more.