L&T receives a contract for the Bengaluru Suburban Railway's Kanaka Line valued at Rs 1,040 crore

 L&T receives a contract for the Bengaluru Suburban Railway's Kanaka Line valued at Rs 1,040 crore

 L&T receives a contract for the Bengaluru Suburban Railway's Kanaka Line valued at Rs 1,040 crore

Double-decker viaduct building at Benniganahalli and Yelahanka is part of the contract.

A creative rendering of the Suburban Rail Elevated Viaduct, which is being built 500 meters below the Bengaluru Metro Viaduct in the vicinity of Benniganahalli. On December 30, Larsen & Toubro received a Letter of Acceptance (LoA) from Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka) Limited (KRIDE) for the civil construction of the 46-kilometer Kanaka Line (Heilalige - Rajanukunte) under the Bengaluru Suburban Rail Project. The value of this deal is Rs 1,040 crore.

According to a statement, the project entails designing and constructing a high bridge between Healalige and Rajanukunte that spans 8.9 and 37.9 kilometers (not including station structures) on a design, procurement, and construction (EPC) basis for the Kanaka Line (Corridor). -4).

L&T was the lowest bidder for the Rail civil works procurement in August 2023. However, since South Western Railways was taking longer to transfer land, KRIDE, which was in charge of carrying out the suburban rail project, was unable to issue the work order. K-RIDE issued a call for bids in January 2023 for the Kanak Line's civil engineering project.

"The work contract has a 30-month completion duration and a value of Rs 1,040.51 crore (including GST). Physical construction is anticipated to start soon," KRIDE said in a statement.

"South Western Railways is situated advanced stage of transferring over railway land (115.5 acres) for Corridor-4 (Healalige-Rajanukunte), as well as handover is expected soon," added the statement.

The stations on the Kanak Line is going to be at Benniganahalli (Interchange), Kaggadaspura, Doddankundi, Marathahalli, Bellandur Road, Carmelaram, Ambedkar Nagar, Huskur, Jakkur, Hegde Nagar, Thanisandra, Hennur, Horamavu, Channasandra, as well as Rajankunte. Healalige; Bommasandra; Singena Agrahara (future).

alignment of two deckers

A 1.2 km double-decker viaduct for Suburban Rail Corridors 1 (KSR Bengaluru-Devanahalli) and 4 (Healalige-Rajanukunte) at Yelahanka is also being built as part of the contract.

It also involves building what is anticipated to be the first elevated suburban rail bridge in India, extending 500 meters under the Bengaluru Metro viaduct close to Benniganahalli. This viaduct will share a right of way with the Bengaluru Metro. asserts that.

Construction on Corridor-2, which spans 25.2 km from Chikkabanavara to Byappanahalli, has already begun, with work granted to L&T.

"With this tender award, BSRP has secured a total length of civil work (at level and elevated) of 72.08 km, or almost 50% of the project alignment. The Government of Karnataka designated Corridors 2 (Chikkabanavara to Byappanahalli) and 4 (Heelalige – Rajanukunte) as Phase-1 priority corridors, according to a KRIDE release.

"Corridor-1 ("Tenders for KSR Bengaluru-Devenahalli") as well as Corridor-3 (Kengeri-Cantonment-Whitefield) will become invited soon, as a 500 million euro loan agreement has been signed with KfW, Germany, as well a 300 million euro loan agreement is anticipated to be signed with the European Investment Bank (EIB) in March 2024," the statement continued.

The federal government authorized a four-corridor, 149-kilometer suburban rail project in October 2020. Although Prime Minister Narendra Modi lay the foundation stone in June 2022, the national government authorized the suburban rail project in October 2020 with a six-year completion timeframe (by 2026). The project was initially proposed in 1983. Will go. finished in forty months. On August 11, the Karnataka government announced a revised completion date for the project: 2028.