Total project cost is Rs 46,000 crore, and it has an overambitious deadline of 2019
Eighteen construction companies have submitted bids for the big ticket Mumbai-Nagpur Super Communication Expressway.
These 18 firms include Afcon Infrastructure, Navyuga Engineering, Reliance Infrastructure, Sadbhav Engineering, Larsen & Toubro, IL&FS Transportation Network, Dilip Buildcon, Ashoka Buildcon, PNC Infratech, NCC, Gayatri Projects and KNR Constructions.
All the companies have submitted bids for the 13 of the 16 packages to construct the 706.2-km greenfield corridor.
The financial bids for this Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) highway project were opened on Wednesday.
The bid process for the balance three packages are still under process.
In October, 33 companies had shown interest in the project, but the government later short-listed the names and then issued Request for Proposal document for further process.
Some of the short-listed companies were Gammon Engineers and Contractors Private Ltd, CQCE-Roadway Solutions India Private Ltd joint venture, China Harbour Engineering Company Ltd, Todini Construzioni Generali, Cengiz Insaat Sanayi ve Ticaret AS, Guangdong Guanyue Highway & Bridge Company Ltd, Guangdong Provincial Changda Highway Engineering Company Ltd, etc.
Radheshyam Mopalwar, vice chairman and MD, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation, said, “With the opening of financial bids, we have achieved a milestone in the implementation process of the project. We are now very close to the historic moment of inauguration. We shall soon undertake an evaluation of the eligible bids before issuing the work orders. We are expecting beginning of the construction work within next two weeks.”
Of the total project cost of Rs 46,000 crore, cost of civil works is estimated at Rs 27,650 crore.
This greenfield project will be access controlled highway and is expected to reduce the road travel time to eight hours from the present 18 hours between Mumbai and Nagpur.
As on date, the government has acquired 80.25% private and government land by spending a compensation amount of Rs 4,788 crore.
The total land requirement for the project is about 8,520 hectares, while the way side amenities would require 1,500 hectares.
Thus, a total of 20,820 hectares is needed for the entire project.
Of this, 399 hectares is forest land, followed by 2,922 hectares of fallow land and 17,499 hectares of agricultural land.
In all 10 districts will be connected between Mumbai and Nagpur, as it will pass through Ghoti (near Nashik)-Aurangabad-Amravati. The project has an overambitious deadline of 2019.
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.
SMOOTH ROAD
- Total project cost is Rs 46,000 crore, and it has an overambitious deadline of 2019
- Govt has acquired 80.25% private and government land by spending a compensation amount of Rs 4,788 crore
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