Gandhinagar, Sept. 20 -- Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel has directed departments to complete the tender approval process within a maximum of 51 to 66 days, aimed at expediting development and construction works and preventing delays in administrative procedures.

Under the revised timelines, tenders where there is no provision for pre-qualification of contractors and only a financial bid is involved will have to be processed from the field or regional office level through the Secretariat and Finance Department within a maximum of 51 days.

For tenders requiring pre-qualification of contractors and involving both technical and financial bids, the entire approval process, including scrutiny at various levels, will have to be complet...