CMRL issues new tender for water plant

The tender for the water supply related work was floated on Tuesday and it would be finalized on October 26. Considering that the work order would be issued in a few days after opening the Rs 38 lakh tender on the aforesaid date, the plant could end CMRL’s reliance on CMWSSB by the end of January 2018. 

CMRL has set a 90-day deadline (from the date of opening of the tender) to complete the work, which would fulfil the water requirement of the headquarters complex, the elevated and underground stations in use now. While the headquarters depot requires 40,000 litres of water, the elevated and underground stations require 25,000 litres and 15,000 litres respectively. 

As per the bid invitation, the contractor should give a two-year warranty for the plant. Last month, CMRL had cancelled a tender floated on August 8 for the same work owing to technical reasons. CMRL had also planned to tap water from its two massive sumps that harvest rain water besides borewells on the headquarters campus. The in-house water sources have been feeding the network and the administrative buildings when CMWSSB had severed water supply due to acute water shortage in the city a couple of months ago.