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Mumbai-Nagpur e-way work orders to be issued this month

Reliance Infra, L&T, Afcons Infrastructure, NCC, PNC Infratech, Sadbhav Engineering are among the companies that have won bids for the project

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The Maharashtra government will issue work orders for Mumbai Nagpur Super Communication Expressway, or the Nagpur-Mumbai Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg Expressway, to a dozen infrastructure companies this month.

Except Megha Engineering, which has bagged two packages of the 13 given out, all other companies have emerged lowest bidders for one package each. The 11 companies are Afcons Infrastructure, NCC Infrastructure, PNC Infratech, Sadbhav Engineering, Apco Infratech, Reliance Infrastructure, MonteCarlo, Larsen & Toubro, Gayatri Projects, Dilip Buildcon and BSCPL Infrastructure.

Construction for this big-ticket project has been divided into 16 packages, and the bid process for the remaining three packages is in progress.

As on date, the authorities have acquired 81% of the private and government land for the 706.2-km long greenfield corridor.

Of the total project cost of Rs 46,000 crore for the engineering, procurement and construction project, cost of civil works is estimated to be Rs 27,650 crore, while it would be Rs 13,000 crore for land acquisition and land pooling, Rs 2,500 crore for node development and another Rs 500 crore for utility shifting.

The project is expected to reduce the road travel time between Mumbai and Nagpur to eight hours from the present 18 hours. In all 10 districts between Mumbai and Nagpur will be connected, as it will pass through Ghoti (near Nashik)-Aurangabad-Amravati.

This project will be executed in two phases, wherein in the first phase would involve paving of four-lane road followed by six-laning of the highway, and has an ambitious deadline of 2019.

GROWTH HIGHWAY

  • Reliance Infra, L&T, Afcons Infrastructure, NCC, PNC Infratech, Sadbhav Engineering are among the companies that have won bids for the project
     
  • As on date, the authorities have acquired 81% of the private and government land for the 706.2-km long greenfield corridor
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