L&T wins Rs 1,500-crore turnkey water supply project

Larsen & Toubro today said it has won a turnkey order for Rs 1,489 crore water supply project from Public Health Engineering Department, Ajmer.

"The Water & Effluent Treatment Strategic Business Group of L&T Construction has won turnkey orders worth Rs 1,489 crore in August 2015 in three packages, from Public Health Engineering Department, Ajmer, under the Rajasthan Rural Water Supply and Fluorosis Mitigation Project (Nagaur)," the company said in a statement.

The projects, funded by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), are aimed at providing potable water to 986 villages and seven urban towns in Nagaur district and 111 villages and two towns of Bikaner district in Rajasthan.

"The scope of the packages includes the construction of a 5,310 million litre raw water reservoir, a 250 million leaders per day water treatment plant, raw water and clear water pumping stations, mild steel and ductile iron pipelines, electro-mechanical and instrumentation and other allied works including operation and maintenance," L&T said.

The Water & Effluent Treatment Strategic Business Group (SBG) caters to turnkey infrastructure projects including water treatment plants, water supply and distribution networks, desalination plants and water management systems.