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The Earnest Money Deposit (EMD), information deposit, slope guarantee, and each different deposits for civic enactment bids indispensable beryllium obtained online mandatorily, to guarantee greater transparency and fairness in nationalist procurement crossed municipality section bodies (ULBs), directed Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department (MAWS).
In an authoritative connection dated May 25, 2026, Gagandeep Singh Bedi, Additional Chief Secretary, MAWS Department, guided the Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner, the Director of Municipal Administration, and the Director of Town Panchayats to marque the due changes. The section instructed each tender-inviting authorities to strictly adhere to the Tamil Nadu Transparency successful Tenders Act, 1998, and the Tamil Nadu Transparency successful Tenders Rules, 2000.
The connection said tender conditions should not importune connected tract certificates oregon machinery availability certificates from ULB engineers arsenic qualifying criteria, arsenic specified requirements could pb to misuse by revealing bidder identities earlier the bidding stage. Instead, bidders could beryllium asked to furnish self-certification regarding tract visits and machinery availability.
Approvals should beryllium granted wrong stipulated timelines, fees should beryllium paid online, and applicants oregon architects should not beryllium required to look successful idiosyncratic for queries. The instructions are to beryllium followed by each Corporations, Municipalities and Town Panchayats, the absorption said.
