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Mamuni Das

New Delhi , Sept 12

THE National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) has awarded projects worth about Rs 1,161 crore during August for constructing a total of 284 km of road.

Four-laning of four different stretches on the National Highway-28 of East-West corridor, funded by the World Bank, was awarded to three companies — Hindustan Construction, Nagarjuna Construction and BSCPL.

Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) would construct a 42 km stretch between Ayodhya and Lucknow for Rs 250 crore. HCC has also bagged the contract for four-laning a 29 km stretch between Gorakhpur and Ayodhya for Rs 255 crore. Another 44 km stretch between Gorakhpur and Ayodhya would be four-laned by Nagarjuna Construction Company for Rs 266 crore.

The third stretch of 43.7 km between Gorakhpur and Ayodhya was bagged by B. Seenaiah and Company (Projects) Ltd (BSCPL), said official sources. It would cost Rs 262.6 crore.

The NHAI has awarded two more contracts under the National Highway Development Programme (NHDP) Phase-III on build-operate-transfer basis.

A 50 km stretch on NH-6, to be four-laned for Rs 9.9 crore, between Kondhali and Talegaon in Maharashtra was awarded to Oriental Structural-Delhi Brass Consortium.

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