The Hindu Business Line : HCC bags Pranahitha, Chevella lift irrigation contract

Hyderabad, July 30 HCC (Hindustan Construction Company), in joint venture with SEW Infrastructures Ltd and Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) has bagged a contract of Pranahitha-Chevella Lift Irrigation Scheme, Package – 3.

The order worth Rs. 639.27 crore (HCC share Rs 326.03 crore) for construction of a barrage of around 3.5 km on river Pranahita near Tummidi Hetti village in Adilabad district is being awarded by the Irrigation & Command Area Development (ICAD) department of the State Government.

The project will be completed in 48 months. Pranahitha-Chevella Lift Irrigation Scheme will irrigate an ayacut of 12.20 lakh acres and provide drinking water to about 1,000 villages in Adilabad, Karimnagar, Nizamabad, Medak, Nalgonda and Rangareddy districts in Telangana region.

In a press release, HCC said it is currently involved in construction of Godavari Lift irrigation phase I and phase II in Andhra Pradesh where phase I has already been commissioned and phase II is in advance stages of completion.

In addition, HCC is currently executing four major projects in the State including the country’s first Cavern for strategic storage of crude oil at Visakhapatnam, the Veligonda lift irrigation project, the Rajiv Sagar lift irrigation project and a 30 km highway of NHAI on NH-7 under north-south corridor on BOT basis.

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