India, Feb. 13 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday extended the deadline to submit expressions of interest (EoI) for developing and maintaining open spaces along the Coastal Road till March 7.

The earlier deadline was February 12, but interested companies were unable to submit bids within this period and requested the civic body for more time to make the necessary calculations, an official from BMC's Coastal Road department told Hindustan Times.

The BMC had initially planned to develop open spaces along the Coastal Road on its own. But on January 10, it invited private firms to submit EoIs for developing and maintaining 53 hectares of open space along the Coastal Road and the 7-km promenade from Priyadarshini Pa...