IL&FS Engineering bags Rs 269-cr Rail Vikas Nigam order

V. Rishi Kumar Updated - March 12, 2018 at 02:34 PM.

IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Ltd has won a contract from Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd (RVNL), Chennai, for construction of a new broad gauge railway line in Kadapa and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh.

The contract worth Rs 269.19 crore will be executed through a joint venture in which IL&FS has a 50 per cent stake.

The contract involves construction of two tunnels with ballast-less tracks and developing a road bed including earthwork, major and minor bridges for a new broad gauge railway line.

The project is to be executed in the stretch between Obulavaripalle to Venkatachalam in Kadapa and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh coming under the South Central Railway.

The project has to be completed within 40 months.

 

Published on September 3, 2012 10:37