Trash is cash — Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has invited bids for a waste management project worth Rs 174 crore. But the profile of one of the contenders has raised hackles.

A firm owned by Abu Asim Azmi, MLA and state president of Samajwadi Party, has participated in the bid in collaboration with two companies. The contract is for picking up and transporting garbage to the dumping ground by compactors, mini-compactors and small closed vehicles. The contract is for the period of four years from July 2013 to 2017. The bid has been invited to allot the assignment for the stretches of Bandra (E) to Jogeshwari (E) and west side of Vile Parle to Jogeshwari.