The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) extended the deadline for tender submission for its ambitious desalination project. The civic body issued a tender notice on December 4 to set up a desalination plant at Manori with a capacity to produce 200 million litres of potable water per day.

The deadline for submitting tenders was January 4, 2024, but the BMC extended it by three weeks to January 29. “We extended the date to February 17 at the request of a few prospective bidders. They needed time to submit papers on technical details,” said a civic official.