📋 Tender Overview
Scope: construction of a 14 km tunnel from Yevai to Kasheli and 7km from Kasheli to Mulund, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. These tunnels will be as deep as 150 meters underground.
The construction work of both tunnels will take at least six to seven years. Besides having a higher capacity, the upcoming infrastructure will not be vulnerable to leakages or contamination of water. The BMC supplies 3,900 million litres of water daily (MLD) from the lakes located in Thane and Nashik districts through a network of pipelines.
To strengthen the city’s existing water supply network, the project has been allocated Rs350 crore in the 2024-25 budget. The proposed work on the tunnel, from Kasheli to Mulund, comes in the wake of ongoing work to widen the Mumbai-Nashik highway. In addition to this, a water tunnel from Yevai Reservoir to Kasheli (Bhiwandi) will also be constructed.
TATA Consulting Engineers (TCE) has been engaged by BMC as the project’s design consultant.
The work will be carried out in two phases and the estimated cost of the project is around Rs4,500 crore.
Package 1 (Yewai to Kasheli) - APCO at ?3577 crores
Package 2 (Kasheli Bhiwandi to Mulund Octroi Naka) - AFCONS at ?1900 crores
Previous Events:
May 2024: APCO Infratech was declared as the lowest bidder to construct a new water conveyance tunnel from Yewai Master Balancing Reservoir to Kasheli (Bhiwandi) by Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in Thane.
