Do you remember the ten mega road projects? The first project was awarded to IRB Infrastructure.We have fresh news regarding the second project.
Shortlist bidders for the Kishangarh-Udaipur-Ahmedabad road project have been announced. This road project is spread over NH -79 A, NH-79 , NH-76 and NH-8 and covers parts of Rajasthan and Gujarat. The stretch that falls under the crucial Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) network is already four-laned and is now being upgraded into a six-lane highway.
The project is expected to cost Rs 5,134 crore ($1,220 million).
The list of qualified bidders is the following:
"This is a lucrative highway sector with over 40,000 tolled vehicles plying on this stretch. The traffic on this corridor will increase manifold since it a crucial link to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port and the Mumbai-Pune expressway," said a senior NHAI official.All the consortia are very strong. The last consortium HCC-Vinci-Orascom is probably the strongest team putting together experience from all the continents.