Overview
- The contractor lowered its bid to Rs 3,065 crore, which civic officials say trims Rs 269 crore from the base cost and Rs 344 crore with taxes, and the BMC is sending the revised proposal to the standing committee for approval.
- The BMC also proposed a temporary 10-member land acquisition cell with additional collectors, deputy collectors and tehsildars to run from April 1, 2026 to March 31, 2027 to finish pending land work.
- The standing committee had stalled clearance earlier this month over incomplete land acquisition and a cost rise near 9 percent, prompting fresh negotiations over the past two weeks.
- Land for compensatory planting and rehabilitation stands at 574 of 658 hectares, with 84 hectares pending, and the project still needs Central Wildlife Board and forest clearances plus plans to resettle six villages.
- The plan would add about 440–450 million litres a day to Mumbai via a 69‑metre dam and a 2.2 km tunnel to Modak Sagar, but it would also require felling roughly 3.1 lakh trees including inside Tansa Wildlife Sanctuary.