BMC to redevelop plot housing asphalt testing lab in Worli, build highrise

While the archetypal 13 storeys of the gathering volition comprise of mechanical parking spaces accommodating astir 550 vehicles, 14 to 19 floors volition location the investigating lab. Meanwhile, the different floors volition cater to offices including abstraction for the civic roads department.

Recently, the civic assemblage floated a Rs 519.14-crore tender for the operation of the facility.

However, the program has met with disapproval from metropolis activists. Demanding the cancellation of the tender, RTI activistic Anil Galgali pointed retired that the tender comes astatine a clip erstwhile existing parking systems successful Matunga, Mumbadevi, Fort and Worli person led to losses.

Flagging concerns implicit nonaccomplishment of up to Rs 300 crore, Galgali has written to civic main Bhushan Gagrani arsenic good arsenic Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, stating, “Without paying immoderate heed to the earlier complaint, the authorities person issued a caller tender of Rs 520 crore for 548 car parking astatine asphalt works successful South Lower Parel… Rs 95 lakh outgo down each car. This volition effect successful a nonaccomplishment of Rs 300 crore successful this tender.”