The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Maharashtra Congress’s intervention in the case related to Rs 26,000-crore Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) project of the BMC. The party, in its intervention application, has alleged non-transparency in the tender process. The SC on May 4 allowed the BMC to go ahead with the process of STP project and directed the corporation to award contracts before May 31. The civic body shortlisted contractors for after the apex court in February directed it to float and process tenders.

The STPs are planned at Worli, with capacity to treat 500 million litres per day (MLD) of sewage, Bandra (360 MLD), Malad (454 MLD), Ghatkopar (337 MLD), Dharavi (418 MLD), Bhandup (215 MLD) and Versova (180 MLD). “The court directed that if any party or bidder has any objection to the tendering process, such objections shall be raised before the Supreme Court only. So we went to the court,” said Ravi Raja, leader of the Congress.