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The technical evaluation of these bids is expected to be undertaken by an expert committee and the process is likely to be completed within a month.

HYDERABAD, May 17

IN a significant development, the long pending and much-awaited major Krishna water project, which envisages evacuating drinking water to the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, has received bids from L&T, Nagarjuna Construction Company, Essar, Gammon and IVRCL, among others.

The water project, which envisages laying a pipeline to evacuate 90 million gallons per day under Phase I of the project, received 32 bids, according to the Chief General Manager of the Hyderabad Metro Water Works, Mohd. P. Abdul Rehman.

The Rs 487-crore pipeline work covering about 114 km is split into four packages. While the first and second stages fetched nine bids each, the third and fourth legs received seven bids apiece, as per tenders which were opened here on Thursday.

The State Government had drawn up plans to lay a pipeline from Kondapur to Santhosnagar in Hyderabad and thereafter link it up to the existing water supply system. The technical evaluation of these bids is expected to be undertaken by an expert committee and the process is likely to be completed within a month. In addition to this, tenders for the construction of 45 MGD water treatment plant, a major component of this project, are programmed to be opened on July 1

L&T, Essar Projects, Nagarjuna Construction Company, IVRCL Infrastructures, are among companies who have bid for all the four phases of the water project.

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