Larsen & Toubro lowest bidder for Rishikesh-Karnaprayag railway project
The Heavy Civil Infrastructure business of L&T Construction has emerged as the lowest bidder for a Package 4 of new broad-gauge line between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag, sources privy to the development said.
The scope of this engineering and construction project includes completing tunnel work by Tunnel Boring Method (TBM) and New Austrian Tunnel Method (NATM) with formation, construction shaft and ancillary works from Chainage 47+360 to 63+117 Km in the Himalayan State of Uttarakhand.
This will be the biggest Tunnel Boring Machine to be deployed in the Himalayan geology and the TBM bored tunnel length of 20.807 km is the maximum in any project in the region.
