BMC engineers complain of stress, pressure

Ten civic engineers have accused the BMC administration of pressuring them to prepare tenders for ₹5,500cr road works in less than a month. In a letter, they also cited the death of a sub-engineer and complained of irregular working hours and stressful environment. 

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BMC engineers complain of work pressure in roads dept

Mumbai: A day after BMC cancelled tenders worth Rs 5,800 crore to concretise 400km of city roads, a letter by 10 civic engineers, dated September 30, complaining about the administration "pressuring them to get tedious jobs done with no time", has surfaced.

In the letter, submitted to BMC two months after the tenders were floated, the engineers said that in addition to their regular monsoon works, they had prepared tenders worth Rs 5,500 crore of road works in less than a month after inspecting and shortlisting the stretches, and preparing inventory estimates and draft tenders.