Afcons bags Rs.938 crore Kolkata Metro project
March 20th, 2010 - 11:18 pm ICT by IANSKolkata, March 20 (IANS) Afcons Infrastructure Ltd. (Afcons), the infrastructure arm of Shapoorji Pallonji Group, has bagged a Rs.938-crore project for design and construction of a part of the East-West Metro project in the city.
Disclosing this at a media meet here Saturday, Afcons director for transportation Ramakrishna V. Ramanan said: “The project includes design and construction of the underground Metro from Howrah Maidan station to Central Station”.
The project, bagged through competitive bidding in joint venture with a Russian company Transtonnelstroy Limited, has to be completed in four years.
Part of the project includes making a link, 20 metres below the Hooghly river.
The contract includes designing and construction of three underground stations and a nearly three-km of twin bored tunnel, of which 520 metres is under the river.
- Tunnelling work of Kolkata's East-West Metro inaugurated - Feb 26, 2012
- Cyrus Mistry has multi-faceted business expertise - Nov 24, 2011
- Kolkata East-West Metro to go under river Hooghly - Feb 22, 2009
- ABB to power Jaipur metro rail project - Apr 12, 2012
- 11 infra firms eye transit centre project in Bangalore - Feb 15, 2011
- India needs better urban planning: President (Lead) - Sep 22, 2010
- Delhi Metro assures its structures are quake resistant - Mar 15, 2011
- L&T; bags orders worth Rs.2,700 crore - Dec 07, 2011
- Delhi Metro to dig deeper for tunnels in third phase - Jun 15, 2011
- HCC to build Rs.1.62 bn railway tunnel - Apr 05, 2012
- India's IT hub boards Metro, finally - Oct 20, 2011
- Pune's cricket stadium to be named after Subrata Roy - Feb 05, 2011
- Two more bridges across Yamuna in Delhi Metro Phase-III - Sep 15, 2011
- Chandigarh's proposed Metro to link three cities - May 26, 2011
- 'Mistry falsely implicated in real estate case' - Apr 25, 2012
Tags: afcons, competitive bidding, crore, design and construction, hooghly river, infrastructure arm, infrastructure ltd, joint venture, metro project, ramakrishna, ramanan, russian company, underground metro, underground stations, west metro