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.