The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had earlier decided that it would not hire third party auditors to scrutinise work contracts and contractors as well. However, during the weekly standing committee meeting on Wednesday a proposal was tabled wherein the civic administration proposed to rope in four government institutes as third party auditors to re-check the work done by the municipal corporation and also to get better results.

The four government agencies would be hired for a period of five years and the BMC is expected to pay about Rs 8-9 crore annually to them. The proposal further mentioned that the BMC had approached IIT-Bombay but they did not wish to join in, whereas institutes such as VJTI, SPCE, COEP and CEIL had been roped in.