IL&FS Engg bags Rs. 300-cr Kolkata metro station contract.

IL&FS Engineering and Construction Company Limited has been awarded a Rs. 299.76-crore contract by Rail Vikas Nigam Ltd., Kolkata.

This entails construction of seven elevated metro stations from Sub CBD-1 to Titumir in the New Garia-Airport Metro Corridor of Kolkata Metro Line in West Bengal.

The project is to be completed in 36 months from the date of issue of Letter of Acceptance (LOA).

IL&FS Engineering Services is already executing two railway contracts for RVNL worth over Rs. 500 crore. While one involves construction of a new Broad Gauge Railway Line in Kadapa and Nellore districts of Andhra Pradesh, the other involves doubling of the Bhigwan-Mohol Section (127.14 km) part of the Daund-Gulbarga Doubling in Solapur Division of Central Railway in Maharashtra.

IL&FS Engineering Services is also executing the Rapid Metro Project Phase II in Gurgaon involving construction of 6.7 km of elevated viaduct, and 5 elevated stations of around Rs. 350 crore value.

Earlier, IL&FS Engineering Services executed RMRG (Phase I) contract worth Rs. 259.30 crore, that involved construction of a single and double-track elevated viaduct, including six station buildings.

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