Mumbai: Hindustan Construction Company Ltd (HCC), in a joint venture with Dilip Buildcon Limited (DBL), has been awarded a Rs 1,900-crore contract by the NHAI (National Highways Authority of India). The project involves the design and construction of a 22-km road to link Jharkhand and Bihar, which will include a four-lane bridge over the Ganga river. The road will connect Sahibganj bypass in Jharkhand to Manihari bypass in Bihar. Hindustan Construction Company's share in the JV is 26 percent (equivalent to Rs 494 crore), the company said in a statement on Friday.
The scope of the contract awarded by NHAI includes the construction of a 15.885-km-long new link (NH-1338), including 6-km-long Ganga Bridge, to four-lane standard connecting Jharkhand with Bihar, the construction of 6-km-long Manihari Bypass in Bihar to four-lane standard and widening of NH-131A ending near Narenpur to four-lane standard in Bihar.
Arjun Dhawan, Group CEO (Chief Executive Officer), said, "Our JV is proud to work on this important NHAI project that will improve infrastructure in Bihar and Jharkhand, generating long term benefits to the socio-economic conditions of the region."
HCC's association with the state of Bihar dates to the early 60s when it built India's first road-cum-rail bridge — Rajendra Setu — across river Ganga at Mokameh. To date, the company has built several railway bridges for Eastern Railway, North Frontier Railways. The lndrapuri Barrage built across river Sone in Rohtas district in 1966 was the fourth-longest barrage (1,409 M) in the world. For NHAI, HCC has built the Grand Trunk Road Improvement Project in 2007. Recent projects completed in Bihar are rail-cum-road bridges across river Ganga at Munger and Sone Bridge near Patna.
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