DFCCIL awards ₹2,500-cr contract to Larsen & Toubro

Larsen & Toubro's railway strategic business unit in consortium with Kyosan Electric Manufacturing Company of Japan has won three packages from the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Ltd (DFCCIL) involving an investment of about ₹2,500 crore. The design and build orders involve 2x25 kW overhead electrification, signaling and telecommunication, and associated works at the Dadri-Khurja and Sahnewal-Khurja sections of the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor (EDFC). The works are spread across 442 route km and 638 track km. L & T Construction is already executing the electrification and signaling contracts for the Mughalsarai to New Sonnagar section and electrification of the Mughalsarai-Bhaupur section of the EDFC. With this win, L & T will be electrifying 1,000 out of 1,346 km of the EDFC and that the orders have been finalized for the entire 1,465 km of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor from Dadri to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust. DFCCIL is a special purpose vehicle of the Indian Railways mandated to build dedicated freight corridors.