RITES wins railway contract in Bangladesh

RITES led consortium has emerged as the lowest bidder in a competitive bidding process by the Bangladesh Railways for constructing the dual gauge railway line starting from Bogura to Shahid M. Mansur Ali station. It is an 80 km long greenfield project and has two phases- the first phase involves the preparation of DPR and the second one involves construction supervision. The duration of the project is 13 months for phase - 1 and 30 months for phase - 2. The project is funded by the Exim Bank of India under Line of Credit. RITES is a Miniratna (Category - I) Schedule 'A' Public Sector Enterprise and a leading player in the transport consultancy and engineering sector in India, having diversified services and geographical reach.