The civic body will no longer insist on undertakings and memoranda of understanding (MoUs) from the ready mix concrete (RMC) plant owners and mastic asphalt providers supplying materials to the contractors, who bid for road contracts worth Rs 1,100 crore. The MNS had made the demand for this, and the civic body said it was doing so after holding two pre-bid meetings with interested contractors.

The MNS had alleged that the tenders by the Road Department are drafted in such a way that there is a possibility of backdoor entry for barred contractors of the 2016 road scam. A controversy over road contracts broke out last month, when the tenders were issued after almost a year-and-a-half, but were scrapped and reissued in early October. There were various changes in the condition of the new tenders, one of which was reintroduction of the 80:20 payment.