Gammon India Ltd, IVRCL, Simplex Infrastructure Ltd, Tata Project Ltd, L&T Ltd, and Gannon Dunkerley & Co Ltd are among the 22 firms that have qualified for the Eastern dedicated freight corridor for track work from New Karwandiya to Durgawati section.

According to a release issued by Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd (DFCC), these firms have qualified for the work of design, procurement and construction of track and related works from New Karwandiya to Durgawati on Mughalsarai – Sonnagar Section of the Eastern dedicated freight corridor.

The pre-bid conference will be held on May 1, and all the pre-qualified bidders and the bids will be submitted on May 16. This section is slated to open by December 2013, ahead of the main project, the release said.

The bids for signalling and other system-related work for the above section have also been invited and are under evaluation. Further, in preparation to the system contract for World Bank-funded Khurja-Bhaupur section of 343 km, where the bids for civil work have already been issued, an interactive session was conducted on April 10, in which 17 prospective bidders participated and showed their interests, the release said.

The World Bank had agreed to provide loan for the 1,185 km section from Mughalsarai to Ludhiana in three phases. The loan agreement for phase I from Kanpur to Khurja amounting to $975 million was signed in October 2011.

The DFCC is constructing an over 3,300-km-long Eastern and Western freight corridors exclusively for movement of goods trains. The total length of the Eastern dedicated freight corridor is 1,839 km, starting from Dankuni to Ludhiana, passing through six States — West Bengal , Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.

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