NHIDCL awards highway bypass contract in Meghalaya
In what can be termed as good news for Shillong which is battling the menace of traffic congestion, the much-delayed Western Bypass project has finally been awarded to different construction firms, As per NHIDCL official sources, construction work of the 37- km, two-lane Shillong Western Bypass with paved shoulder from Lad Umsaw to Baniun in Upper Shillong has been divided into three packages. Package-I which is 12 km long has been awarded to a joint venture between Hyderabad-based Anusha Projects and BKD Infrastructures of Odisha at a cost of Rs 185.49 crore. The project was sanctioned at a cost of Rs 620.3 crore. Package-II which is 11.9 km has been awarded to Narendra Sharma – T.K. Engineering Consortium of Arunachal Pradesh joint venture at an investment of Rs 199.89 crore, while the sanctioned cost of the project stretch is Rs 686.03 crore. Package-III which is 13 km has been awarded to BRN Infrastructures, Jaipur, at an investment of Rs 154 crore against the sanctioned cost of Rs 562 crore.