VARANASI: UP Jal Nigam opened bidding on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, for four water and sewer schemes covering Old Trans-Varuna districts 2B and 2C and the Lahartara zone. The new development is the publication of individual tender schedules, following the earlier project approvals UP Raises Fair-Price Dealer Margin to ₹125 Per Quintal; Araji Line Joins Launch. Residents in these service areas now have a procurement timetable to follow, although the notices do not announce the start of excavation or a change in household supply.
The four notices were published at noon IST on November 10. They set December 10 at 3 pm IST as the deadline for bids and document downloads, with opening scheduled for 5 pm IST that day. Each lists a work period of 720 days. That contract period should not be read as a completion date calculated from the publication of the tender.
For households, the practical step is to distinguish this planned infrastructure from an immediate fault or a new connection application. No interruption hours, street closure dates or household application deadline appear in these tender summaries. The municipal corporation's official website lists 1533 for civic complaints and links separately to water and sewer services.
What the four packages cover
The official procurement listing places all four works under the same departmental chain: UP Jal Nigam headquarters, the chief engineer at Allahabad, the construction circle at Varanasi and Construction Division II in Varanasi. The tender inviting authority is the superintending engineer of the construction circle.
For Old Trans-Varuna water supply, tender 2026_UPJNM_1207257_1 covers surveying, soil investigation, design, materials and labour. Its work description includes tubewells, pump houses, overhead tanks, a clear water reservoir, boundary walls, staff quarters, gates and site development. It also includes laying and joining rising mains and distribution infrastructure, together with the control system identified in the notice.
A separate Old Trans-Varuna sewer package, 2026_UPJNM_1207269_1, serves the same named districts, 2B and 2C. Its listed scope includes surveying, soil investigation, design, sewer pumping infrastructure, rising mains, a sewer network and sewer connections for houses. Water supply and sewerage therefore remain separate contracts, even though both use the same service-area description.
For Lahartara, water supply tender 2026_UPJNM_1207210_1 describes augmentation and extension in the expanded municipal area, under Phase 1, Part A of the Cis Varuna scheme. It lists tubewells, pump houses, overhead tanks, a clear water reservoir and distribution infrastructure. House connections are expressly included in this package's work description.
The fourth package, 2026_UPJNM_1207270_1, concerns the Cis Varuna sewerage scheme for Lahartara. It includes survey and design work, a sewer network, rising mains, pumping infrastructure and house sewer connections. Its summary also lists boundary walls, staff quarters, gates and site development.
Dates and requirements for bidders
Pre-bid meetings are scheduled for November 18 at the office of the superintending engineer, Construction Circle, UP Jal Nigam (Urban), Varanasi. The sequence is 2 pm for Old Trans-Varuna water supply, 2.30 pm for Old Trans-Varuna sewerage, 3 pm for Lahartara water supply and 3.30 pm for Lahartara sewerage. All times are IST.
Each package is an open works tender with a turnkey form of contract, two covers and a bid validity of 120 days. The first cover contains fee, qualification and technical material; the second is financial. The detailed eligibility requirements are referred to the tender documents and notice inviting tender, rather than reproduced in the portal summary.
The tender fee is Rs 23,600 for each package. Earnest money differs: Rs 1,95,91,000 for Old Trans-Varuna water supply, Rs 4,90,15,000 for its sewer scheme, Rs 1,68,15,000 for Lahartara water supply and Rs 5,11,10,000 for Lahartara sewerage. These deposits are bidding requirements. They are not the project costs, which the summaries leave unlisted.
What residents should do
Residents seeking to track the work can retain the relevant tender number and locality. The notices identify broad zones rather than a streetwise construction sequence. They do not supply a beneficiary-household list, a commissioning date or a timetable for connecting an individual property. Those details need to be checked against subsequent departmental notices.
For an existing service complaint, describe the lane and whether the problem concerns drinking water, a sewer blockage or another municipal service. Earlier coverage of the Varanasi gets approval for six water and sewerage projects and the Varanasi approves Rs 2,635.44 crore revision, assigns STP operations provides separate local context. The next dated steps in these four procurement schedules are the November 18 meetings and the December 10 bid deadline.
