L&T-Sojitz wins freight corridor project

June 08, 2013 10:55 pm | Updated 10:55 pm IST - NEW DELHI:

The Railways is all set for a long-term engagement with Japan with the Dedicated Freight Corridor Corporation of India Limited (DFCCIL) granting a Rs.6,700-crore contract for construction of 640-km twin-track line between Rewari and Palanpur of Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.

L&T-Sojitz, a joint venture comprising L&T of India and Sojitz Corporation of Japan, has won the contract through an international bidding process.

The contract is likely to be completed in four years, a release said.

The project is funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the Japanese government arm for providing technical and financial aid to developing countries, which is also DMRC’s lending agency.

Earlier in January, DFCCIL had awarded the Rs.3,300-crore contract for 343-km-long Khurja-Kanpur section of Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, funded by the World Bank.

The length covered under the new contract is more than 40 per cent of the entire western corridor. Land for almost the entire stretch has already been acquired.

All other statutory clearances have also been obtained.

The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, which will cover a length of about 1,500 km from Dadri to Jawaharlal Nehru Port (Mumbai), is being funded by the JICA, which has pledged a special terms for economic partnership loan of 677 billion yen for the entire Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.

As per the loan conditionalities, the lead partner for any contract has to be from Japan.

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