Relief for L&T as MMRDA scraps tender

TAKEN TO COURT by Larsen & Toubro (L&T) which said it had been kept in the dark about the status of bids for two projects worth ₹14,000 crore — the Thane-Ghodbunder to Bhayandar tunnel and elevated road — the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) informed the Supreme Court Friday that it had scrapped the tender process "in the larger public interest" and fresh tenders would be issued in due course.

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Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi, appearing for MMRDA, told the bench of Chief Justice of India BR Gavai and Justices AG Masih and AS Chandurkar: "We have decided to scrap the two tenders. The government will decide what they want to do."