AMRC sets to award metro contracts

The Amaravati Metro Rail Corporation (AMRC) has decided to entrust metro rail project works to two companies including L&T and Afcons Infrastructure, except the construction of metro depot at Nidamanuru. Though the DMRC, which is supervising the project, has reportedly suggested that it would be better to involve three major companies in metro works to facilitate speedy completion of the project, only two companies L&T and Afcons Infrastructure got eligibility in financial bidding that was conducted recently. According to a senior officer of AMRC, each corridor work will be entrusted to one company for the corridors, one from Pandit Nehru Bus Station (PNBS) to Penamaluru and the other from PNBS to Nidamanuru, and are planned to be built simultaneously, AMRC, Managing Director, N P Ramakrishna Reddy said, adding that the DMRC and AMRC are now in the process of evaluating price bids submitted by the L&T and the Afcons Infrastructure and the entire process will be completed in the next fortnight.