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BMC to build pumping station on salt pan land in Mumbai; floats tender worth Rs 400 crore

On Tuesday, the BMC released bids for a pumping station on salt pan land in Mahul totaling Rs 400 crore. The BMC had earlier this month sought the Centre's salt department once more for land for the project after its attempt to exchange property with a private function.

TN City Desk

Updated Jul 27, 2022, 16:30 IST

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Mumbai: On Tuesday, the BMC released bids for a pumping station on salt pan land in Mahul totaling Rs 400 crore. The BMC had earlier this month sought the Centre's salt department once more for land for the project after its attempt to exchange property with a private function Object to construct the pumping station came to nothing.

The BMC has also requested that the state government obtain the land from the salt department now that CM Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena-BJP coalition is in office.

Rahul Shewale, a Shiv Sena MP who just joined the Shinde group, wrote to Piyush Goyal, the minister in charge of the department of promotion of industry and internal commerce, on Tuesday to request that he turn over to the BMC the salt pan site in Mahul.

“The minister had earlier said that this land transfer would need the Union cabinet’s approval. We have pointed out that BMC has written several letters to the salt department, but there has been no response. I have urged the minister to... submit a proposal to the Union cabinet urgently if it hasn’t been submitted,” he said.

The BMC chose to build the Mahul pumping station on private property and arranged a land exchange with Ajmera Realty and Infrastructure India Ltd. after waiting for the salt department's reaction for over two years.

The idea, however, was abandoned when updated maps released by the National Coastal Zone Management Authority revealed that the land traded between BMC and the builder was subject to the Coastal Regulation Zone and could not be used for building.

“...Tenders were awarded for the pumping station on the exchanged land, but as the project could not go ahead, we have again written to the salt department to give us land and asked the state government to push for it. We will float fresh tenders...,” P Velrasu, additional municipal commissioner (projects) had earlier said.

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