Suburban rail: Four firms submit bids for civil work of Kanaka Line

Four companies have submitted bids for the design and construction of the Bengaluru Suburban Railway Project’s Corridor 4 (Kanaka Line).

The 46.88-km line will connect Rajanukunte in the far north to Heelalige in the far south via Baiyappanahalli and Yelahanka.

L&T Ltd, Afcons Infrastructure Ltd, INTARVO Technologies, and Dinesh Chandra R Agrawal Infracon Pvt Ltd participated in the tender called under the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) model. The bidders had to give separate lumpsum quotes for the Kanaka Line’s 8.96-km elevated and 37.92-km at-grade sections, Rail Infrastructure Development Company (Karnataka), or K-RIDE, said in a statement on Tuesday.