The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (MMRDA) ambitious project — the Real Time Flood Forecast — touted as a mechanism to provide you with up-to-date information about flooding, will not be ready in time for the monsoon.

In February, the development authority had claimed that the entire mechanism would be ready by March 2012. However, only now has the MMRDA invited bids for the collection of tidal data along various creeks in the MMR. A senior MMRDA official said, on condition of anonymity, “The project will take at least six-eight months to be completed. There is no chance that it will be finished before this monsoon.”